Comments on: Fiscal conservatism – Jan 18, 2009 https://nealo.com/2009/01/18/fiscal-conservatism-jan-18-2009/ a collection of editorial cartoons by neal obermeyer Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: neal https://nealo.com/2009/01/18/fiscal-conservatism-jan-18-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-815 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:29:00 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=1852#comment-815 From Daniel Larison of American Conservative magazine on the zero Republican votes for the stimulus:

Indeed, the sudden unanimous opposition of House Republicans to this bill mainly accomplishes one thing, which is to remind everyone of how gutlessly the Republican leadership acquiesced to whatever the Bush administration wanted and how they only managed to discover some interest in resisting massive expenditures when someone from the other party is in the White House.

]]> By: LWOT https://nealo.com/2009/01/18/fiscal-conservatism-jan-18-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-612 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:27:18 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=1852#comment-612 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 . . .

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