George Bush & The Republican Congress - shocking

[Londoner]

George Bush and his Republican congress raised the debt ceiling several times.

*Bush had a Republican House for 6 years, and captured the Senate by the end of 2003*

How come these debt ceiling increases never made the news?

How come there was no protest from the Republican base?

The Republicans had complete control for a few years and could have cut spending as much as they wanted . . .

... but they spent more than the 6 prior presidents combined, including LBJ.

104 Republicans currently in Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling under Bush without a peep. Not a fucking word.

(psst: America is getting punk'd by a bunch of crooks)

We know the dems like to spend . . . but why is it that Republicans always spend more?

 

[tinydancer]

George Bush and his Republican congress raised the debt ceiling several times.

*Bush had a Republican House for 6 years, and captured the Senate by the end of 2003*

How come these debt ceiling increases never made the news?

How come there was no protest from the Republican base?

The Republicans had complete control for a few years and could have cut spending as much as they wanted . . .

... but they spent more than the 6 prior presidents combined, including LBJ.

104 Republicans currently in Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling under Bush without a peep. Not a fucking word.

(psst: America is getting punk'd by a bunch of crooks)

We know the dems like to spend . . . but why is it that Republicans always spend more?

In 2006 President Bush's most ardent and strident critic of raising the debt ceiling was then Senator Obama.



Hypocrite thy name is Barack.

 

[tinydancer]

Rarely has an upside down pinnocchio been given by factchecker but Obama earned one.

Obama’s 2006 speech on the debt limit

“Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills.”



Here, Obama is sounding a bit Tea Partyish.



“It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Over the past five years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. That is ‘‘trillion’’ with a ‘‘T.’’ That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers.”

Rest of speech at link.

The Pinocchio Test

This is why many Americans hate politics.

The young senator from Illinois presumably did not want to buck the rest of his party establishment in voting for increasing the debt limit — not when there were just enough Republicans willing to support a president from their own party. But Obama would be on much more solid ground today if he had given a speech back in 2006 that sounded more like his news conference in 2013.

For making an argument that the president now decries as politics, he earns the upside-down Pinocchio, signifying a major-league flip-flop.

(We have rarely given this ruling, but are eager for other examples from readers.)

Annotating Obama?s 2006 speech against boosting the debt limit - The Washington Post

 

[Avorysuds]

George Bush and his Republican congress raised the debt ceiling several times.

*Bush had a Republican House for 6 years, and captured the Senate by the end of 2003*

How come these debt ceiling increases never made the news?

How come there was no protest from the Republican base?

The Republicans had complete control for a few years and could have cut spending as much as they wanted . . .

... but they spent more than the 6 prior presidents combined, including LBJ.

104 Republicans currently in Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling under Bush without a peep. Not a fucking word.

(psst: America is getting punk'd by a bunch of crooks)

We know the dems like to spend . . . but why is it that Republicans always spend more?

Obama and Dems are spending more. Obama and Dems voted against raising the debt ceiling 52/48. And thank you for showing how mass spending under Bush managed to collapse the economy, now ask yourself why you support that same policy under Obama.

Bush hit a low of 28% approval rating and spending was a big reason, it took years to get there. Obama is at 37% approval and pretty much has expanded every single Bush era policy. At 5 years in Bush was right around 38-42% approval rating fyi~

bye.