Republicans (continued…)
Posted on February 4, 2008 - Filed Under American Politics, Politics |
While I’m on the subject of W’s disastrous legacy…
Against a worsening economic backdrop, it forecasts a deficit of over $400bn.
When Bill Clinton left office there was a $559 billion surplus sitting in the US Treasury. Between a failing war in Afghanistan, a calamitous war in Iraq, and a host of unaffordable spending increases in government programmes, Bush has managed to get the United States bogged down in both war and debt. No wonder Republicans can’t seem to get it into their heads that John McCain is a conservative; they’re so delirious from excessive pork-barrelling under Bush’s vacant stare that they’ve forgotten that fiscal responsibility is a core conservative principle. Ditto for limited government power, adhering to the Constitution, Realist foreign policy, …
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