Posted on 01/03/2015 12:30:35 PM PST by South40
For the gazillionth time, near the end of Bush’s presidency, the deficit was in the $200 to $300 billion/year range *and dropping*, UNTIL we got to the budgets put in place by Reid and Pelosi (FY 2007) after they took over in the election of 2006.
Bush deserves some of the blame for signing the damn things, but trillion dollar budget deficits were a donkeycrat creation, starting with the gross overspending in FY 2007, continuing through Porkulus, and perpetuated in continuing resolutions through most of Oloser’s tenure.
After the slowest recovery on record, yes, the economy has started to pick up, mostly due to exploitation of domestic energy sources, carried out by private industry (yes, they did build that) despite continual roadblocks set in their way by the regime and their enviro-loonie allies.
YAWN! Same ol’ feces.
They nabbed themselves an ideologue and are happy he is an even purer socialist with a megadose of social liberalism than their wildest dreams. Plus he doesn’t mind lying and bending (breaking) rules to get what he wants.
So much for the theory that moderates win and keep people happy.
He sounds like a contrarian look-at-me a^^hole.
“Bush deserves some of the blame for signing the damn things,”
Bush deserves 100% of the blame for inheriting a balanced budget and then doubling the federal deficit on his watch. He had a veto pen and didn’t use it. He can’t even say he tried. The Republican Congress led by Hastert and Frist was spending freely, setting the tone for the reckless spending to follow. Bush could and should have reigned them in with vetoes but chose not to.
Reid and Pelosi merely built on what had already been created. Somehow I don’t recall any budget veto showdowns during the two years Reid and Pelosi controlled Congress.
History demonstrates George W. Bush was a big spending, big government president. Actions speak louder than words. Bush’s behavior was no different than any free spending Democrat.
Well Hrafnkell, if you thought Baraq was bitchin’ as POTUS, wait til he takes over as Grand Caliph of ISIL in 2017!
That Bush...
How DARE he go and cut our TAXES!!!
I should be paying MORE, I tell ya! I wanna pay MORE!!!
Them damn Republicans just won’t let me!
/sarc
This whole “unpaid-for” wars crap is just WEIRD to me...
WHEN did we EVER have a war “paid” for before, during or AFTER we fought it???
Might have needed a barf alert, although the title made it self-evident.
Commie pink fag.
Yes, liberals are that stupid.
“And this, folks, is how the terminally stupid think.”
The article is basically a portrait of mental illness.
He overdosed on Hopium Jan 20, 2009.
I just hurled on my keyboard -
I could not get past the authors name: Hrafnkell Haraldssonmore
Obammy ramped up the war in Afghanistan, launched a war on Libya (and got our ambassador there killed as well as supporting the torture/abuse/murder of a POW named Momar Gadaffi), tried to launch a war on Syria, etc.
This whole bit about Bush’s war is a load of crap with no justification or defense of Obama’s OWN military exploits.
He had to do something after Paul Simon went solo.
I agree. As proof I offer that this article comes to me via a Harvard educated man who believes its every word. He also said Hillary is the "Most qualified in America to be the next president". If that is not clear evidence of mental illness I don't know what is.
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