I asked this 2.5 years ago and the basic question is still germane today:
You guys were so enamored of every defilement of the Constitution that was done by the Bush Administration. Every expansion of presidential power met with your approval. You had no problem when Bush expanded Medicare in a massive unfunded mandate.[1] It didn't bother you a bit when Bush took a budgetary surplus and converted it into a whopping deficit by handing out massive tax breaks and then putting the spending for two wars 100% on the national credit card.
In fact, those of us who questioned the usurpation of the rule of law by the Bush Administration were called "unpatriotic" and worse. By you guys.
So I asked in 2007 if you conservatives would stay consistent to what you had been yelling since 2001 or, when a Democrat sat in the Oval Office, whether you would find yourselves becoming all of a sudden so concerned about the deficit and the rule of law and, by doing so, revealing yourselves to be the purely partisan goons that I thought all along you to be.
We have our answer now, don't we?
[1]Remember when that "unfunded mandates" thing so enraged conservatives? I didn't think so.
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One of several reasons I'm glad to be a liberal is because groups like the ACLU will support the constitutional rights of anyone, even nazis, while Republicans will shut up and support a Republican no matter how many awful things he does.
there is/was no such thing as a 'budget surplus'.
It was a myth created by the Clinton Administration.
Clinton's policy advisor was Dick Morris...a man with Republican ideals.
He took Clinton's Democratic ideas....combined them with Republican ideas, and met in the middle. It was called 'triangulation'.
Some examples:
Clinton cut govenrment spending (Republican idea)
Clinton raised taxes (Democrat idea)
Clinton signed welfare reform bill (Republican idea)
Clinton cut military spending (Democrat idea)
What happens when you raise taxes, and cut the givernment's spending?
You have money left over at the end of the year.
I can tell you have never worked for a government department before....so I will give you the details.
Whatever money you are allotted...you are NOT allowed to have any left over. If you do...they'll figure out that you can do with less...and cut your budget.
Anyway, they government does not own money...and it is not allowed to keep it.
When its bills are paid, money goes back to its taxpayers....ie us.
Don't be so quick to believe a lie.
If I was "quick to believe a lie", I'd be voting Republican and listening to the likes of Glenn Back.
Anyway, I don't know why you tried to post the exact same comment three times, so I deleted two of them.
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