WSJ responds to NYT's anti-Romney Sandy editorial

The Wall Street Journal editorialized today against criticism Mitt Romney has received -- most notable from the New York Times -- regarding past comments he made on disaster relief.

From WSJ:

We know liberals are worried that President Obama might lose next week, but are they so panicky that they want to suggest even before the storm has passed that Mitt Romney and Republicans are against disaster relief? Apparently so. It's an especially low-rent tactic, akin to blaming the tea party for Jared Lee Loughner's shooting of Gabby Giffords. ...

The rush to use Hurricane Sandy to justify a bigger federal government makes us wonder if there's an excuse liberals won't use to grow Leviathan? The reality of the federal fisc is that whoever wins next Tuesday is going to have to choose between functions best done by the federal government and those that can be done better by others. A government that can't distinguish between a big storm and Big Bird is simply too big.

WSJ's own editorial doesn't mention the New York Times specifically, but their own Tuesday editorial was widely cited by conservatives as an attempt to politicize Hurricane Sandy.