Via Andrew Sullivan, this disturbing graph (which he got off the Free Republic):
Makes me want to vomit. Remember this the next time the lying Democrats claim Bush is gutting spending.
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Via Andrew Sullivan, this disturbing graph (which he got off the Free Republic):
Makes me want to vomit. Remember this the next time the lying Democrats claim Bush is gutting spending.
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Way to help ‘change the tone:’
Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton $160 million presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum devoted to mocking his presidency.
“As long as he’s talking, we’ll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from rewriting history,” says John LeBoutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York who rode Ronald Reagan (news – web sites)’s coattails to victory in 1980.
LeBoutillier and his partner, Houston businessman Richard Erickson, plan to call it the Counter-Clinton Library. They say the museum here and one planned for Washington will look at such topics as Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky, the last-minute pardons, even damaged White House furniture.
“We already hear he’s going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president,” LeBoutillier says. “And we’ll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him.”
This is an embarassment. What a bunch of jerks.
(via Wunderkinder)
*** Update ***
Apparently, this is old news.
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That is a portrait of what governance by ‘fiscal conservatives’ looks like. A lot of the deficit can be explained by the war on terror and the poorer than expected economy, but show me the spending cuts. You can’t. And the fools on the left are chasing mythical lies while this deficit sits here glaring them in the face, and you wonder why I think Democrats are stupid (although it appears that Kevin Drum might be catching on.)
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Jacob Sullum points out that John McCain really doesn’t know what he is talking about:
For those who wondered how Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) could sponsor a “campaign finance reform” law that restricts political speech, the answer became clear during a hearing he chaired the other day: McCain has never read the First Amendment.
How else to explain the senator’s contention that radio stations violate the First Amendment when they decline to play the music of performers who offend their listeners? According to McCain, this threat to freedom of speech is a “strong argument” for limiting “media concentration”
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Not only is this administration and this Congress a group of irresponsible spenders, but they are also extensive regulators:
The Bush administration, philosophically wedded to the idea of smaller government, issued a record-high number of pages of new federal regulations last year, according to a study to be released today by the Cato Institute.
The libertarian think tank found that the Federal Register boasted 75,606 pages of federal regulations in 2002, up from a high of 74,528 pages in 2000, when President Bill Clinton was still in office. The surge is part of a decade-long rise in this crude index of federal regulatory activity, with the number of pages in the Federal Register increasing by 24 percent between 1993 and 2002.
“It is apparent that, in terms of page counts, regulation and agency activity are expanding,” wrote Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., the Cato scholar who wrote “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.” “This is in spite of the takeover of Congress by presumably more deregulatory Republicans in 1995.”
Are Republicans the New Democrats?
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Michael Savage was fired from MSNBC:
MSNBC on Monday fired Michael Savage for anti-gay comments.
The popular radio talk show host who did a weekend TV show for the cable channel referred to an unidentified caller to his show Saturday as a “sodomite” and said he should “get AIDS and die.”
“His comments were extremely inappropriate and the decision was an easy one,” MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.
I am curious what the hell they thought they were getting, but overall, I don’t really care, because I don’t support idiots and bigots. I am just glad he is gone- I hated the idea of him being the face of conservatism. Which, if liberals really think he is what most conservatives are like, you can understand why people like Atrios and the Talk Left crowd view Republicans as the enemy.
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Thank goodness. Finally we are hearing someone bitch and moan about the outrageous spending that has taken place during President Bush’s administration due to appropriations from a REPUBLICAN congress:
Federal outlays jumped by $222 billion in President Bush’s first two years, a spending increase that is expected to accelerate under the administration-backed $400 billion prescription-drug bill that is speeding through Congress.
Much of the spending increases have been for defense and the war on terrorism at home and abroad, according to White House and congressional budget analysts.
The two-year increases represent 1 percent of the economy’s annual gross domestic product, four-tenths of which was devoted to national security.
Meanwhile, Democrats are still lying about spending:
Democrats have been loudly complaining that domestic social welfare spending has been cut under the Bush administration.
But congressional budget officials say that over the past two years such spending for education, job training, unemployment assistance, Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, food stamps and other “human resources” has risen from 11.5 percent of GDP to 12.7 percent.
This fiscal irresponsibility is Bush’s Achilles Heel in his re-election bid. Not his ‘arrogance,’ his ‘lying about WMD,’ the fact that ‘he is stupid,’ or the ‘tax cuts for the rich,’ or ‘the erosion of civil rights,’ or any of the other crap that Democrats routinely screetch about every campaign (he is going to starve the poor, enslave the dark-skinned, put children in labor camps, etc.) The spending is his real problem.