Ah, there's nothing like a Mitch McConnell interview to put everything into perspective. The Senate Minority Leader appeared on "Meet the Press" Sunday to discuss health reform. And he professed great concern for what President Obama and the Democrats had in mind.“If you're going to do something as comprehensive as the president wants to do,” McConnell said, “you ought to pay for it.”...Politicians believe that voters have no memory. Sadly, they are usually right. So making these charges actually does convince some people that Obama's administration is fiscally reckless and that somehow all that debt created under Bush didn't really happen. Bizarre.
I don't recall McConnell being quite so insistent about fiscal responsibility when he voted for the Bush tax cuts. Nor do I recall him agitating for tax increases to pay for the war with Iraq. In fact, I'm pretty sure most Republicans had very little use for arguments about fiscal responsibility when it was their initiatives on the agenda. Gee, could it be that McConnell and the Republicans just don't care what happens to people when they can't pay for their medical care?...
[The] Democrats are being nearly as irresponsible about paying for their ideas as Republicans were during the early parts of the decade. The Democrats have said reform will not add to the deficit. And the plans emerging from Congress seem to be true to that, at least within the confines of the budgeting rules...
Oh, and I guess the Republicans believe that the average taxpayer would rather create debt to fight wars "of choice" against a non-enemy and to give huge tax cuts to the top 0.5% of the population rather than provide medical care for the whole population. Funny thing, the way the voters act in the polling booths, that statement appears to be true. Bizarre.
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