Spin it however you like…

The GOP held Congress and White House of 2000-2006 did not make a single round of cuts, even while they were passing tax cuts and spending record amounts on war spending. But they do a better job controlling the purse strings. And when the housing market, which was propping everything up, collapsed, where were we? THAT bubble started well before the Dems gained the majority in Congress. There was no “supermajority” for the Dems when the first round of bank bailouts were passed. Or the stupid $400 check that amounted to nothing more than an advance of tax refund money that people already had paid got passed.

Please…spin it how you want. Doesn’t change what happened and doesn’t change the fact that Red States use more Fed funds than Blue States while paying less per capita taxes to the Feds.

But the GOP knows how to handle money… No, they’re just better at hiding where it goes and the friends it is getting funneled to… They don’t bother to give it to regular folk in big social programs. Instead they give it to Halliburton for “reconstruction efforts” required by unjust wars they started. Or to Red State like Alaska for a Bridge to Nowhere, even though the state has plenty of oil revenue they can get money from. Or to a whole host of other pork projects and tax breaks that line their friend’s pockets at the expense of the 95-99% of the rest of us Americans.

And no comment about how the GOP of today is already starting to pass the buck on proposed spending cuts- “not in MY backyard.”

I guess wasteful spending only occurs in Dem states or on Dem projects. Federally funded GOP pet programs like abstinance only education are worth the money I guess, even though the teen birth rate has started to skyrocket and is one of the largest in the industrial world. But then we do like to be #1, forget what it’s for… But some GOP pol will stand there and defend spending on programs like abstinance-only education, even thought I thought that a proven ineffective program was one that should be cut…

Are you sure that it is a REPUBLICAN that could give this speech without his fingers crossed behind his back? The facts say that the GOP, from both past actions and present words, are not interested in cutting waste or balancing the budget. After all, one man’s pork is another man’s bacon and “not in my backyard” rolls of the GOP’s tongue as quickly as it does anyone else…

Isn’t the last, and only, President in generations to balance the budget a Democrat? Please, correct me if I’m wrong…