Comments on: A Majority Squandered

National Review Online: Democrats Are Turning Opportunity Into A Tax-And-Spend Spree

[idlepugilist]

Can't even make it past the first paragraph. Democrats are least multi-taskers if they can tax-and-spend, because Republicans only know how to Spend-and-Spend. It's a shame they deflect truth at every single turn by regurgitating the same old tired deceptions.

[fergie303]

Sad:
i'm an independent (voted for Regan, Bush the first time, Clinton both times). I don't understand a guy like this who retires and then is so full of bullcrap that he knows is not true. These folks aren't conservatives. What I don't understand is how someone can retire from public office then try to deceive the American people about what the congress has done. Prescription drug benefit: A laugh! A donut hole that screws the less well-off. Farm bill, a laugh for corportations. The republicans suck! However, so do the democrats in leaving their pet projects in the budget. Are all these people braindead, or do they think that we are braindead believing them? Do any of you folks really care about our way of life? I doubt it.

[jn122736]

%u201CIf Democrats continue with their present agenda of expanding government, they will show voters what a tax-and-spend liberal is all about.%u201D
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It is amazing how quickly republicans fall back on their old fallacious charge of %u201CTax and spend democrats%u201D.

The republicans have cut taxes mainly for the already wealthy, destroyed the only safety net available to the working class (the bankruptcy law), given special treatment to big business and all the while borrowing trillions of dollars to finance it.

The Irony is that the interest on the borrowed money, in effect, is actually a huge tax increase ($406 BILLION, for FY 2006.)

Everybody seems to be ok with the national debt, perhaps because they really think it doesn%u2019t affect them and that they are just leaving it to future generations to pay.

We can put off paying back the borrowed money but the interest must be paid EVERY year. That $406 billion interest payment was paid in 2006.

If interest rates increase, as they are almost certain to do, we will soon be paying $Trillions in interest per year instead of $Billions, Followed by Absolute, total bankruptcy.

[pepperp1]

Absolute lies Bush increased spending by 50 percent in his first year and increased the deficit by 600 percent; remember the deficit dose not matter Administration and co dependent drunken spenders in Congress when China jerks your chain again and threatens an economic Chinese nuclear option aimed at America. And the genius and his mental midget assistance increased the debt funded by foreign capital by 50 percent and actually accomplished that in two years. The Repugs have been the party of Tax and Steal pillaging the treasury through run away spending, tax cuts for their buddies and rebates to their corporations buying their bridges to know where in their own back yards and slipping in personal earmarks after voting on bills were over they can not stop themselves. What a conservative *** wipe, what the Democrats need to do is clean up the corruption institutionalized by De Lay and drop to zero discretionary giveaway spending, fix the infrastructure and move the Bush war debt to a trust and sell war bonds so all these supposed go ho chicken hawks can a least contribute by buying the bonds while they fiddle.

[elz523]

Hmmm Armey, was this worse than the Republicans gutting the ethics committee or holding a house vote open for hours while arm twisting representatives to change their mind on the pharma bill?

The Democrats were wrong for doing what they did as well, but spare us your sanctimony.

[sjc_1]

"...wasted no time in abusing..."

Dick Armey should know about abusing power. For 12 years the Gingrich Goosesteppers were twisting arms and changing rules in every session to get more and more power. The concept of fairness was for suckers, they steamrolled their opponents. It did not matter that those opponents represented half of the country, they were in charge and you would dance to their tune.

[twylacrat]

The democrats have vastly underestimated the level of discontent in the country today. We voted for them because we are desperately unhappy with the repubs. But so far, I haven't seen them deliver either. Who the h*e*l*l is going to represent the AMERICAN people? Our goverment is too stinking busy representing the Iraquiis, the Mexicans, Halliburton, Scooter, Gonzo, Chinese imports, etc. etc. etc.

[walt1944-2009]

According to the article, the evil, left-wing liberals having been pulling every trick they can to "victimize" the poor, mistreated right-wing neocon Republicans. Of course, nothing has been said about the tactics those very same poor, mistreated neocons used over the past 12 years to tear apart the constitution and create George W. Bush into Dictator King George Bush II.

Thanks to neocon policy our country has become hated and victimized throughout the world, our economic base is on the verge of bankruptcy, the middle class is disappearing, we are in debt to our enemies, we are "squandering" American lives in an illegal war in Iraq, our Constitution has been treated like toilet paper, and the country is on the edge of becoming a dictatorship.

The neocons haven't been squandering their time over the past 12 years created a "new world order" in this country, just like Hitler tried to create the 1,000 year Reich in Germany.

And how long did Hitler's Reich last??? And at what cost???

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!

[mimi611]

You're right. They should have impeached Bush and Cheney. But again, you right wing nut birds stop everything but the downhill slides.

Hope you're really proud of what you have done to our country and...the world.

Bless you

[wogerwabbit]

NRO is irrelevant propaganda that nobody with an IQ over 30 believes any more.