from Joseph Palermo
At his press conference on Monday, President Barack Obama had to remind Mara Liasson of Fox News and NPR that it was the Republicans who doubled the national debt over the past eight years and it's a little strange to be hearing lectures from them now about how to be fiscally responsible. That interchange was my favorite part of the press conference. A savvy inside-the-Beltway reporter of Ms. Liasson's caliber shouldn't have to be reminded that George W. Bush and the Republican Congress were among the most fiscally reckless politicians in U.S. history.
The most inexcusable action the Republican Congress and the Bush administration took vis-à-vis the federal budget was to launch two wars and two open-ended occupations without raising one dime in revenues to pay for them. Never in the history of this country has an administration and Congress cut taxes while launching open-ended wars.
... read the rest on Huffington Post after the click.
My comment: A new found sense of fiscal responsibility; a new found desire for bipartisanship ... but the same old sense of social responsibility. Party first, nation second, but wave the flag and accuse everyone in sight of being unpatriotic. You can ignore the plight of the unemployed, and the recently homeless among us as long as you wear a flag pin. Conservative economists be damned! Who cares if they say tax cuts won't do the trick ... go for the tax cuts. After all, its bought votes in the past. No reason to think it won't work now.
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