Hypocrites

Conservatives love to beat their chest about "fiscal conservatism" and taunt the Democrats with epithets of "tax & spend liberals".

Look at this and tell me that Republicans are not lying SOBs...

Figure from DeLong's website

What you can see is that the two prevous Republican administrations ran up the debt. The Democratic one worked hard to lower it.

But in January who were those in the US Congress yelling loudest about "pork" and "wasted spending"? Why, it was the Republicans, those paragons of virtue, those tight-fisted fiscal conservatives who would never think to waste a penny! What a joke!

I find that hypocrites are the ones who yell loudest and throw their weight around the most. Sadly, most people are intimidated by the pomposity and bludgeoning that these hypocrites deliver. Pathetic!

Bush 43 delivered not only more debt... he engaged the US in reckless wars killing over 4,000 citizens, he ran the economy into the ground, he larded the supposedly "too burdonsome entitlement programs" with his hole-in-the-middle Pharmacare, and he played Nero busy on his fiddle while New Orleans sank beneathe the waters and poor victims clung to rooftops or huddled in the Superdome & Civic Center pleading for help.