Andrew Sullivan with a quick hit about fiscal responsibility.
A note from his reader:
"According to the treasury department's Bureau of Public Debt, the federal deficit went from $5,728,195,796,181.57 on January 22, 2001 to $10,626,877,048,913.08 on January 20, 2009. Bear in mind that the allegedly fiscally conservative Republican Party ran this government for six of those eight years. Roughly two trillion of that debt was added after Democrats took over Congress in 2007."
Sullivan's take:
"Here's my litmus test for the Tea Party right: when they hold up effigies of Bush and Cheney as socialists, I'll take them seriously. Until then, they're more partisan than principled."
Indeed.
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The only problem with that logic is that protests of any kind involve people actually in power.
ReplyDeleteNot that I favor effigy-burning of any kind.
Defending the effigies since 2009...that's us.
ReplyDeleteDmarks is right. Are you seriously asking people to go out and retroactively protest the previous administration?
ReplyDeleteCheck out the archives of the Wall St. Journal Op-ed page. There was PLENTY of conservative anger at the Bush administration's handling of the national debt. Plenty. He was a Republican; he was not a conservative.
And debt-wise, Obama-Biden are racking up debt at least 4 times faster than Bush-Cheney.
ReplyDelete(And part of it has been the silly idea of giving free healthcare to rich people. Something that was part of Obama's stimulus.)