White House says it's in Dem's DNA to spend money

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/white-house-says-its-in-dems-dna-to.html

White House says it's in Dem's DNA to spend money

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With four days until the midterm elections, the White House hopes to hammer home their contention that a Democratic Congress would raise taxes on middle-class Americans.

White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said in an interview on CNN Friday that Democrats have a "huge appetite," and it's "fundamentally within their DNA to spend money."

Bartlett also claimed that Democrats will raise taxes on all income levels, not just the rich as they have maintained.

"The only way they can pay for it, is what they will call is so- called just taxing the rich, Bartlett said. “The problem is they have a long record of taxing everybody when they do that."

[Hugin]

1. From what I've seen we've only got the trait...

Bushco got the full blown money spending syndrome!

[wholetruth00]

55. Yes, we Dems spend money to help people, not oil the war machine and fatten

the pockets of the wealthy. Why not just admit to the truth and keep moving on?

[central scrutinizer]

2. as opposed to huge deficits?

It must be in Republican DNA to act like drunken pirates on shore leave with a stolen credit card.

[Actionmac]

9. lol

smiling and :rofl:... thakx

[BOSSHOG]

11. Thanks for being discrete

and not saying "drunken Sailors." We spent our own money on shore leave.

[central scrutinizer]

21. My dad was in the Navy in WWII

I would never disrespect the Navy

[BOSSHOG]

24. Thanks Teammate

and God Bless my Shipmate, your DAD!

[brentspeak]

3. It's fundamentally within the DNA for many Republicans to lie

Not all, but many. Like 98% of the Republicans currently in Congress, and 99.9% working in the White House (Barney saves the WH from being 100%).

[dchill]

26. And while they're lying...

they're also spending more money than Dems EVER have - on wars of choice and enriching Corporate types with fat contracts and tax cuts.

[Hugin]

4. Oh yeah... Any time the 'tax increase' meme is thrown counter with..."End corporate welfare".

This is stupid.

[C_U_L8R]

5. ummm.. who has gone crazy on the nation's credit card

i don't see any D's beside their names.

Largest Debt Ever.. thanks to the out of control spending policies of the Republican Party.
And where has all that money gone... social programs? no. Right in their pockets.
Just ask Neil Bush. Faith Based Bullshit... Bah
More like Federally sponsored embezzlement

[liberal N proud]

6. OK! - since when was fiscal responsibility genetic?

I sense the desperation here.

[jobycom]

7. Yeah, cause Bush and Reagan were so thrifty with money...

[NanceGreggs]

8. Ahem ...

Just how much debt are we in due to those fiscally-responsible Republicans who have been in charge of the purse-strings?

This is beyond pot meet kettle. The GOP reminds me of too many people out there who say, "No, I didn't spend ANY MONEY - I just put it on my credit card!"

RIP, GOP.

[jus_the_facts]

43. $8,576,372,290,782.21 ..increases an average of 1.64 billion per day since 9/30/05

The estimated population of the United States is 299,680,983
so each citizen's share of this debt is $28,528.87.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.64 billion per day since September 30, 2005!

[thingfisher]

48. So why not just

pass a Patriot Deficit Reduction Bill and make each citizen cough up their $28,528.87. VOILA deficit gone! By the way if you don't have the cash you can put it on your credit card! What could be more American?

[Pakhet]

56. it's a repub thing, gotta be,

that doesn't regard credit spending as actually spending money. my repub dad has the same problem understanding that credit cards are money same as cash (or rather, more expensive than cash). he really and truly honestly doesn't understand.

Pakhet

[LiberalEsto]

10. So explain the Federal Deficit, Bartlett

I'm waiting.....

[Nite Owl]

12. Let's say we do a credit

check on them?

Fail!

[Kber]

13. Their real problem is that dems spend money on the wrong things

like a social safety network, college scholarships for traditionally disadvanged citizens, enforcing environmental protection measures.

Under democrats "all the wrong sort of people" get money spent on them. Under republicans, money goes only to the "right sort".

Wink, wink, you know what I mean right?

Sarcasm off now.

[Kber]

16. and if I can continue on a rant

it's hard to oppose saving the environment, scholarships for the young and medicine for the elderly without sounding like an asshole. So it's "spending" that becomes the boogy man.

[aquart]

14. Is George saying he's a Democrat?

Because I've never seen anybody spend money like he does.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Lamest catchphrase EVER...if that's all Rove's got left, he's running on empty

Pathetic...

Even more so since it associates Dems with DNA, which is to say, science, which is one of main issues this year. STU. PID.

[humbled_opinion]

17. He forgot SMARTLY... n/t

[truthisfreedom]

18. erm... what money? the administration spent it all already!

[Solly Mack]

19. Gee, did C. Boyden Gray come up with this talking point?

It's right up his family's ally

[Norquist Nemesis]

20. Just one thing that can be said about statements like that...

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[Bob3]

22. it's in the GOP DNA to STEAL government money

how many no-bid contracts has Halliburton gotten from these clowns anyway? All the money poured down the memory hole in Iraq? That's all government money - they don't seem too upset with that kind of spending but god forbid the poor of the middle class get any help, that's socialism.

[NOLADEM]

23. That's a mirror, not a window, assholes.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. Just typical republican projection.

[sinkingfeeling]

25. This from the administration that has 'spent' (wasted) more money than

all others in history?!!

[underpants]

27. This is getting to be funny

WOW

[shanti]

45. they are flailing wildly

it IS funny!

[woodsprite]

28. Spend money is one thing - Lie, Cheat and Steal is the DNA they have. n/t

[AlienGirl]

29. This way lies Rump Of Skunk And Madness

Attributing social attitudes and action to inherent genetic traits hasn't been a good idea ever.

Tucker

[keopeli]

30. Hasn't Bush and the Repubs spent MORE US$ than any previous administration? n/t

[lumpy]

34. No kidding. Borrow and spend is Bush's mantra.

The ahole sez the trouble with China is that they don't spend enough, but that they are savers. Hokey pokey.

[Jack Rabbit]

31. Sounds like election year rhetoric

:boring:

[Vinca]

32. Two points.

Numero uno: at least we don't put our spending on the China Visa card. And, secondly, Der Fuhrer would need to sign any increase in taxes.

[anotherdrew]

33. like this ignorant knuckle-dragging sub-humanoid bush doesn't spend money

he's taken a surplus and turned it into a deficit and this son-of-a-bitch has the NERVE to say shit like this?

[skypilot]

35. "...is what they will call is so- called just taxing the rich..."

What language is he speaking?

[seafan]

37. You've got the party of *appetites* wrong, Mr. Bartlett.

White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett said in an interview on CNN Friday that Democrats have a "huge appetite," and it's "fundamentally within their DNA to spend money." ----- November 3, 2006

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As God Is His Witness

October 19, 2004

It's time to arrest these charlatans, thieves, hypocrites and war criminals.

[KayLaw]

44. Scary picture

Ted Haggard looks truly evil. I think I'd turn tail and run if I saw him aiming that grin at me.

[BuddhaGirl]

38. Repuke DNA: Lie, Cheat and Steal!

n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

52. Don't forget raping teenaged boys...

Apparently that's a big one.

Oh and hypocrisy. Don't forget the hypocrisy!

[cosmicdot]

39. but, wouldn't that be science-based theory? n/t

[Carni]

40. And it's in GOP's DNA to steal it

ASSHOLES-- they created THIS deficit and they want to talk about spending money?

Takes a lot of fucking nerve not to mention arrogance and stupidity!

[Marnieworld]

41. Since when do they use science in an arguement?

DNA?

WOuld they suggest spending endlessly without income instead? Is that GOP DNA?

They are so desperate.

[mnhtnbb]

42. You beat me to it. I don't think DNA is in the Bible, is it?

[Raine]

46. What about repugs that are now Democrats or

Democrats that turned rethug?? :shrug:

[rodeodance]

47. my gawd. how stupid to think the public is? (ok--33% ARE stupid)

[mac56]

49. Mac56 says it's in Repug's DNA

to suck ass.

[demo dutch]

50. Oh really?, then why was there a surplus at the end of Clinton's term!!!

[MasonJar]

51. From the idiots who give us $2 billion a week in Iraq & a drug

policy of non-negotiable prescription drugs. I cannot imagine how even a sociopath like Bush has the unmitigated gall to address dems as spenders with his record of corporate give-aways and other spending atrocities. There may be only one way to bring these losers down and that is to refuse to pay our taxes next year. Even Bush would be hard pressed to put us all in jail. Let the Bushites pay for his outrageous wars since they like him and them so much. Let Haliburton pay itself. Now that is a winning idea. I could run for president on that platform!

[Duer 157099]

53. Well I don't know about *every* Dem, but...

I have to admit that it's in mine! C'mon people... fess up....

[katty]

54. HA! There's no $ left for the Dems-GOP KEEPS SPENDING

the meter is running.....