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.
by John Cole| 9 Comments
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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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Barney Gumble
So, you just now figured out you have been lied to?
bg
Please cite a few dems or libs who’ve said “Bush is gutting spending.”
Everything I’ve read has said precisely the opposite: Bush is cutting taxes and NOT cutting spending, which is leading to massive deficits. Your post is contrary to my experience.
David Perron
Lied to by Democrats, Blarn.
You really ought to work on your reading comprehension.
David Perron
I think the inestimable Tony Foresta started that “gutting spending” meme.
John Cole
Nathan Newman- http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000750.shtml
The folks at Tom Paine-
http://www.healthfactsandfears.com/editors_rants/regulated/2002/leftist032102.html
Robert Kuttner at the American Prospect-
http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/webfeatures/2003/03/kuttner-r-03-27.html
Seriously, you have google. Go embarass yourself.
Tony Hooker
I’d love to see a similar chart for other recent presidents as well…
Andrew Lazarus
The Kuttner article talks about some very specific (often stupid) cuts, and shouldn’t be interpreted as a complaint about across-the-board cuts. I don’t know where to assign blame in the Nathan Newman case, because I don’t know if Bush really did what he said he would. When I looked at the budget data myself, I did notice that the chart is selected to capture extreme cases. It isn’t all the data at all. And the third link is to a secondary source, and I don’t know if its summary of TomPaine.com is accurate.
All in all, though, I’ll take a moment of rare agreement with John. Bush blinked when time came for the service cuts necessary to offset the tax cuts. He, and the Republicans, are too *chicken* to cut the programs the way John wants too. (Agreement was short; I like most of them.) They’re probably right: voters like tax cuts in the abstract, but biting the bullet on services might cost seats. Instead they told an absurd fairy tale about revenue recovery. They killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
So, why aren’t Bush’s budget claims a lie again? ( Joe Klein has a great column today on Bush and truth.)
Thomas J. Jackson
The hell with the Democrats, Bush is spending like a drunken sailor. pressing for big government programs that Clinton wouldn’t have dared ask for. What is Bush but Clinton Lite (though he isn’t a lying pile of fertilizer like the ole intern molester).
bear, the (one each)
Bush is proving to be an even bigger Democrat than Richard Nixon. You remember Nixon: affirmative action, food stamps, wage and price controls, that sort of thing?