Maybe I was wrong about Democrats, at least Democrats in this day and age.
Maybe they don’t immediately seek to increase spending in response to every social problem. It seems the 12/12 Democrats have a different kind of reaction every time, they or the nation hits a speed bump (or something worse). They just blame Canada.
Oh, I’m sorry, in my zeal to find a musical expression of the Democrats’ problem, I got the action right (blaming), but the object wrong. With a new CBO report showing that the stimulus cost even more than the meager $787 billion Democrats thought necessary to keep unemployment under 8%, Democrats are trotting out their all-purpose bogeyman, George W. Bush, even though that good man retired to Texas over a year ago:
House Democratic leaders said a report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing a $1.35 trillion deficit in 2010 was the result of policies put in place by President George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress, who controlled the House and Senate until the 2006 elections.
“Today’s CBO report is a clear reminder of the Bush and Republican Congress-era policies that have resulted in the loss of millions of jobs, led to the worst recession since the Great Depression, and turned record surpluses under the Clinton Administration into record deficits,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
Um, Nancy, haven’t you been Speaker now for, like, three years? And, um, well, doesn’t the Constitution give the power of the purse to Congress? When are you going to take responsibility for your actions.
Oh, and, one more thing, that blame Bush thing worked wonders for Senator Martha Coakley.
What rubbish. Democrats in Congress ballooned Bush’s $100 billion or so deficit – starting in 2007-8. And they added hundreds of billions more in 2009 that they didn’t need to, and should have chosen not to. And Porkulus doesn’t solve recessions or “create jobs”; it only funds a few government jobs temporarily – until the Porkulus money runs out.
But wait, there’s more! 🙂 The “logic” of Pelosi’s statement is: Bush somehow, demonically caused the $1.35 trillion deficit of the Democrats… which deficit is the *solution* (we are told in other contexts) to the economic problems that have caused us to have a $1.35 trillion deficit. In other words, the $1.35 is both problem and solution – it is the solution to itself. Huh? That doesn’t make sense, even as circular logic. And if it is the solution to itself, then why blame Bush? i.e. how could it be a problem?
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I like it. You just allowed me to see that Conservatism is not a set of values held only by a group of white racist religious rude dumb rednecks. I actually started to believe what Ms Pelosi and the rest of the squad have been spouting about extra loud since the Tea People emerged.
Cool & thanks for the eye opener.