from the Lincoln Journal Star
I got a kick out of this quote from Andrew Sullivan on Friday:
Every time you think: nah, they can’t say this with a straight face, they can’t actually pretend – in January 2009 – that the Bush Republicans were adept at fiscal discipline for the past eight years, can they? … not after doubling the national debt, not after raising spending more swiftly than LBJ or FDR, not after a surplus became deficits of trillions of dollars as far as the eye can see, they can’t say that, can they? … you realize – yes they can!
Remember, they were increasing the deficit to fight terror (through no-bid contracts granted to companies owned by their friends, and by friends I mean the Vice President) and keep us “safe.” Plus, you can’t count any deficit spending before 2006, then you can blame the Democratic controlled congress. I could go on . . .
From Daniel Larison of American Conservative magazine on the zero Republican votes for the stimulus: