[varyouga]

Reminds me of a convo I had with my ultra-rightwing uncle. This guy makes me look like Mike Moore. He left the USSR in the 70s and is as anti-commie as they come.

He was telling me how W is a communist because of the ridiculous spending. I told him Kerry was the commie. And he just says, "No, Kerry was the idiot. He couldn't cover-up that he was a commie so he lost."

[Venerable Bede]

"Borrow and spend" is a completely different animal than "tax and spend". Tax and spend is what Clinton did by raising marginal income tax rates, corporate taxes, et al. Once the government puts a new tax in place, it never goes away. Bush is using temporary deficit spending to fix problems his predecessor allowed to fester and worsen. Granted, nobody here wants to see 3+ trillion federal budgets, but would it have been better if the Democrats were in charge and allowed to implement their SOCIALIST health insurance policies, retirement ponzi schemes, and progressive income taxes to punish acheivement and success?