Politico's Allen says $1 trillion deficit "awesome issue for Republicans," ignoring they created it

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/research/200907140057

Politico's Allen says $1 trillion deficit "awesome issue for Republicans," ignoring role they played in creating it

SUMMARY: Mike Allen claimed that the budget deficit reaching $1 trillion "is an awesome issue for Republicans." However, as numerous economists have noted, Bush administration policies are responsible for a large portion of the deficit.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Allen is a tool. nt

[kentuck]

2. Obama inherited a deficit of $1.2 trillion dollars..

as opposed to the surplus of $270 billion that Bush and the Repubs inherited in 2000. Yeah, that's a real issue! How was he supposed to cut it to zero in six months?

[City Lights]

3. Politico is nothing more than another mouthpiece of the GOP.

:puke:

Like they needed another one. :argh:

Mike Allen can KMA.

[charlie]

4. Tax cuts and war

That's never been done in the history of the country, as far as I know. Maybe in the history of any country.

And Cheney's "deficits don't matter" was pretty much a Fuck You to anyone getting in the way of his blowing a hole in the budget.

Allen knows this, but he's still intoxicated with smelling his fingers after the handjobs he gave Bush/Cheney at Time.

[RandomThoughts]

5. What if the billions for war, and the manpower of the army

were used to build solar panels and windmills over the last 8 years.

With upgrades to grid, we could be off foreign oil by now.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Weren't the Repukes blasting Obama at one point about his "opportunity" remarks from way back when?

Or that might have been attributed to another Democrat? I can't remember. But, at any rate, it seems like they consider the current situation to be a political "gold mine" for them, of course. Typical GOP hypocrisy and all that. :eyes:

It may not, in fact, actually be Obama's mess but I loved how he threw the gauntlet down the other day by calling the Repukes out on their lack of ability and/or willingness to suggest ideas for dealing with the problem and their constant sideline carping about his stimulus plan and the horrid economy Buscho left his administration to clean up.