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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
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26 Mar 2006 08:42:38 PM |
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Slick Willie Frist and his GOP thugs play the blame game |
Faced with potentially disastrous election prospects this year,
Republicans have decided to headquarter their campaign operations on
Planet *****.
And why not?
Here's an excerpt from an email that Bill Frist sent to supporters
last week:
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/032206/news5.html
The Democrat alternative to Republican efforts to restrain spending is
clear:
Continue to spend beyond our means, mortgaging our children's future
by saddling them with a debt of $8 trillion -- and continue to ratchet
up taxes to pay for their fiscal irresponsibility, stifling the
American economy.
That's right ladies and gentlemen, despite holding the reins of power
for the past six years;
despite controlling all three branches of government;
despite the fact that Democrats in Congress can barely tie their
shoelaces without getting permission from Bill Frist and Dennis
Hastert - the vast increase in government spending since 2001 is NOT
the fault of the Republican party!
When Bush took office in 2001, he had a $236 billion budget surplus to
play with - after six years of Republican rule, we now have a $400
billion deficit.
Whose fault is that?
Must be the Democrats!
Similarly, the national debt in 2001 was $5.7 trillion - after six
years of Republican rule it is now $8.2 trillion.
Whose fault is that?
Must be the Democrats!
And just last week the Republican-controlled Senate voted to increase
the debt limit to $9 trillion, which, as the London Times points out,
could buy you 28 life-size Eiffel Towers made out of pure gold.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2090441,00.html
Whose fault is that?
Must be the Democrats!
Sure it is - provided you overlook the inconvenient fact that all 44
Democratic senators voted against raising the debt limit.
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2006/03/20/local_news/news20.txt
Democrats also voted against adding $16 billion to Bush's 2007 budget,
but the Republicans managed to squeeze that through by 51 votes to 49.
But never mind the facts.
Everybody knows that the Republicans are the party of fiscal
responsibility and smaller government, right?
So if you're a Republican, just ignore the fact that your party has
held the reins of power for the past six years, ignore the fact that
your party controls all three branches of government, and ignore the
fact that the GOP is presiding over one of the greatest periods of
spending and borrowing in American history.
After all, it's much easier to place the blame for your screw-ups on
somebody else.
(I believe that's what George W. Bush calls "taking personal
responsibility.")
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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| User: "monkeyhawk" |
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| Title: Re: Slick Willie Frist and his GOP thugs play the blame game |
26 Mar 2006 09:32:31 PM |
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... Republican efforts to restrain spending...
What?!
Just exactly is there any evidence of "Republican efforts to restrain
spending?!"
The George WMD Bush administration and the Republican Congress have spent
and spent and spent and spent, putting the United States in debt to China,
Japan, Korea, and Dubai (among others) at a rate of $30,000 per every man,
woman, and child in America.
"Republican efforts to restrain spending?!?!"
Sounds like "Hugh Heffner's efforts for chastity."
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