Posted on 02/17/2009 3:07:30 AM PST by King of Card Games
How quickly they forget.
All these dupes of the national Republican Party, I mean.
Just a few months ago John McCain was promising a plan that would have created a budget deficit equal to or greater than the one now being created by Barack Obama.
But now that it's Obama who's in the White House, the Beltway Republicans are trying to convince us that they've seen the light and converted to fiscal conservatism.
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So, they 52 straight months of job growth put no money in people's pockets?
In the meantime, the confusion over what constitutes conservatism is a consequence of conservatives, primarily within the Republican Party, stupidly allowing themselves to be dragged leftward, inch by inch, over the years and the decades.
Of course, you preferred putting the Dems in charge and letting Marxism happen overnight.
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With the Republicans drifting to the left, all you were doing is buying yourself some time. And, unfortunately, in 2008, you really weren't buying much time, since McCain and Obama agree on so many issues in the "nation-killer" category.
Overnight, you say? The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that one will embrace more Government at 7 am, bright and early, while the other starts cuddling with Government at 7:03 am and then jumps into its arms at around 7:06 am.
D*mn right, and I'm sick of it. Too bad the damage has been done.
Things can change if given time.
With Obambi, time's up.
That “ money in peoples pockets ” you talk about was public and private foreign debt and the credit lines have dried up so that money in our pockets that went into 401ks and our houses is gone, never existed. Other money oin our pockets used for consumption of foreign products is gone too. All that is left is a huge debt hangover.
There was only one industry driving the whole train, housing which depended on endless immigration, to buy the houses, and illegals to build the houses, and endless ever increasing sized foreign loans funding it all to keep it from crashing. It's called Ponzi not economic growth.
Your GWB “money in peoples pockets” from massive debt sounds exactly like democrats now.
The Republican Party had time. Lots of time. The Party controlled the Federal Government for six years...and what happened? An orgy of Government spending.
Enjoy your four (or eight...or more!) years in detox. It's time out for bad behavior. And, hopefully, you and folks like you will return to your senses in that time and actually strive to do more than emulate the Democrats.
I have to agree with that.
President Bush and the Republican controlled congress did not put us in the position we are in today.
I am not a Paul supporter, never was, but compared to Bush he looks brilliant. I just despise your hero GWB for giving us Obama/Pelosi/Marxism. It was not possible without him. Even congressional republicans are finally united repudiating the GWB doctrine of “bankruptcy now, Socialism later”
Our national debt, until the Dems took over in 2006, never exceeded 60% of GDP, except for WWII when it hit 150%
In fact, the huge deficits and large increase in debt left by Ronald Reagan were paid for BY GROWTH by 2000.
Capitalism has always had booms and busts. What is different this time will be that “conservatives” handed the recovery to a bunch of communists.
More BS. Porkulus would pay for the President's prescription drug plan for 25 years.
Porkulus is more than all the earmarks Republicans had in six years.
You are a fool.
Wait a minute...GWB was supposed to snap his fingers and fix every problem of the last thirty years../s
I'm not so sure that what the DemoncRATs are doing is a "recovery" even if that is what they have in mind.
I'm not so sure that having the DemoncRATs in power right now is a, completely, bad thing.
They will take the fall for a "depression" and the other parties can then bring us out of that "depression".
I don't think that will happen. No matter what happens, the media will make sure the Dems do not get the blame. If for some reason the economy recovers in a reasonable amount of time, the Democrats will be institutionalized in power just as FDR's Democrats were.
You are out of your mind, or existing in another parallel universe. If Gore and the Democrats had won in 2000, we would have had the equivalent of Porkulus then to get us out of the recession.
GWB SAVED US FROM PELOSI/REID FOR SIX YEARS.
“Paul wanted to surrender to al Qaeda”
Al Qaeda. I seem to remember them and Bin Laden. Aren’t they the folks we supported with some of the latest weapons technology, to help them defeat and bankrupt the Russians in Afghanistan?
Wait a minute. They called themselves something else then. Let’s see, what was it? Mujahedeen?
And that fellow Saddam Hussein. IIRC, his rise to power came in a coup supported by the US.
In some circles this would be called meddling in the affairs of other countries. Course, all this meddling in the name of fighting the communists in Iraq and Afghanistan could have been justified then. Although, it’s still meddling...aka interventionalism.
In the case of surrendering to al qaeda, now that would be novel. Where a nation surrenders to an elusive entity it supported while meddling in past foreign affairs.
Maybe Ron Paul believes we are on the wrong track hunting OBL and al qaeda in Iraq after all these years with trillions spent. Maybe Ron Paul believes we should have been hunting down and killing OBL and his band of misfits. Maybe Ron Paul believes we fell into OBL’s trap he set for us in Iraq.
Like the Russians were eventually, we are now on the verge of bankruptcy. Trillions spent chasing OBL and al qaeda in Iraq. And now, leaving these folks (the sunnis, shia, kurds, shiites,whatevers, etc) in Iraq to sort out their own affairs, would be in essence, a surrender to OBL and al qaeda.
Maybe Ron Paul, right or wrong, is not convinced this is necessarily the case. Maybe Ron Paul believes, especially as we endure our current economic crisis with multi trillion debt, which btw, Ron Paul predicted, America should have come first.
OMG, what a freakin nightmare. America coming first.
I do blame you because you voted for Ron Paul, and did not vote for McLame. Get over yourself, and Ron Paul you both are losers.
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