FUCKING REPUBLICANS, WHERE WAS YOUR "FISCAL DISCIPLINE" DURING THE BUSH YEARS?

[DainBramaged]

FUCK ALL OF YOU!!!!!

[Motown_Johnny]

1. destroying the economy from the inside, and destroying the economy from the outside

require completely different strategies

[LaurenG]

2. Damn straight F them, and then some.

I am feeling like an alien on earth and I want to go home now. Jebus these people are diabolical.

[Mnemosyne]

3. Amen. K&R n/t

[JHB]

4. 911! 911!

Why do you hate America, you terrorist Frenchman?!


:sarcasm:

[andym]

5. Part of their long-term plan to eviscerate federal government

was to create huge deficits, that would prove that government is inefficient!

[JoePhilly]

7. And force the end of all social programs ... it's Grover Norquist's plan.

People will never give up Sociali Security and Medicare because they work.

So, to kill those programs, you have to bankrupt the country first.

Then, you scare everyone about the deficit, and they will give up Social security and medicare, so it can be funneled straight to the richest people on the planet.

That is the plan.

[LSK]

6. "Deficits don't matter"

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was told "deficits don't matter" when he warned of a looming fiscal crisis.

O'Neill, fired in a shakeup of Bush's economic team in December 2002, raised objections to a new round of tax cuts and said the president balked at his more aggressive plan to combat corporate crime after a string of accounting scandals because of opposition from "the corporate crowd," a key constituency.

O'Neill said he tried to warn Vice President Dick Cheney that growing budget deficits-expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year alone-posed a threat to the economy. Cheney cut him off. "You know, Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said, according to excerpts. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms (congressional elections). This is our due." A month later, Cheney told the Treasury secretary he was fired.

The vice president's office had no immediate comment, but John Snow, who replaced O'Neill, insisted that deficits "do matter" to the administration.
Source: Adam Entous, Reuters, on AOL News Jan 11, 2004


http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Budget_+_Economy.htm

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. This is like calling on the arsonist to put out the fire.

He lit it, and now he wants to take the credit for putting it out.

What you said x 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

[Lorien]

9. And remember: always call it "The BUSH Deficit"

The Dems should have been doing this from day one.

[DainBramaged]

10. The Dems need to start fucking showing up on TV instead of taking weekends off

damn it.

[_ed_]

11. Have you ever heard Obama make this point?

Other than during the election? You know, it might just help if our President actually fought against his political enemies. Just maybe.