On the stimulus package, one wingnut says:
So, President Obama phoned the Senate GOP sellouts Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Arlen Specter and praised them Friday night for showing their “patriotism” by cutting a trillion-dollar, backroom deal to mortgage our children and grandchildren’s future.
My question, especially concerning the “mortgage our children and grandchildren’s future” part: Where were these patriotic wingnuts when Bush used his eight years in office increasing government spending to such a degree that, by the time he left, he accrued more debt then all of his 42 predcessors combined? Future historians will not argue over whether Bush was a successful president, they’ll argue over whether his administration added $10 trillion on the low end, or $15 trillion on the high end, to our national deficit. So where were these wingnuts when Bush’s first act was his $1.35 trillion tax cut bill in 2001? How come a trillion wasn’t big spending then?
Not to build up a strawman to trash the messenger (how’s that for horribly mixing metaphors? i slayz da englishz!), so let me step back and say, you know, maybe the Republicans against the stimulus bill have a point. Maybe we should listen to them. But how can I — or anyone else — take them seriously when they don’t look in the mirror and ask the exact same questions I’ve just posed? Fact is that Republicans against the stimulus don’t ask these questions of themselves; they have not publicly apologized for their big spending attitudes during the years of their boy, Bush. Until they publicly fess up, all their complaining about Obama’s stimulus package isn’t honest criticism — it’s a statement claiming Republicans should continue doing whatever they want, whenever they want, and as long as a Republican does it then it’s right.
Well, it’s wrong. The need for a stimulus bill since our economy is in the tank should be evidence enough of that. Don’t expect them to admit it, though.
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