WN IT.The fact is many people on the right were dead set against his TARP bailout and said so at the time.
Nor did all of W's spending and expanding of gov. pass w/o serious discussions on the right.
The deadly election of 2006 showed the dissatisfaction on the right of what the gop was doing.
Jonah is too close to the beltway fishbowl.
LOL. Classic JF-in Kerry. who by the way served in Vietnam
This is definitely how tea partiers see it. The disappointment of the GWB/GOP Congress years, followed by TARP and Porkulus, spawned the tea party, which is basically a bunch of conservatives who are mad as hell and not going to take it any more. It's not hypocrisy. The time to find out if it's real is when we get power back. If we settle into complacency, then we're hypocrites. If we remain vigilant, we are not.
One of the biggest problem we have on the political side of this issue is that we didn’t ride herd enough on supposed conservatives (or conservative-leaning moderates, at least) about spending when they were in control. Oh, to be sure, there was always talk about the government spending too much, and spending on useless and counter-productive things, but as long as the debt was grown SLOWLY, it all kind of got swept under the rug.So, to a lot of the folks out there, it’s a “pox on both of your houses” situation, and they’re not wrong, even if there is a difference in degree as to how bad the various sides are.
Any serious reform is going to have to take on herds of sacred cows, and not all on one side of the aisle. I don’t think the current crew in DC is capable of doing that without some changes imposed from the outside.
Kinda reminds you of Nero blaming the Christians for the burning of Rome.
WN IT.