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@cargotom Where was GOP fiscal responsibility when Bush was President? See Op-ed by conservative who worked for Reagan. http://bit.ly/ssEOo 12/18/2009 |
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RT @ChasLicc: Superb piece: a reminder of what the Republican "fiscal conservatives" were doing 6 years ago http://bit.ly/ssEOo 12/4/2009 |
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Harsh words from Bruce Bartlett (of all people!) about GOP hypocrisy on Medicare drug give away and health care http://bit.ly/4L4Lvx 12/2/2009 |
TGIF! President Oprah Is Ending the World!
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... house seat. [Page One]
Going Commando: thank goodness someone else is reading Sarah Palin’s fancy book so I don’t have to. I especially love the map showing Alaska right next to Russia. [Clicky Clicky]
Will Ray Larson seek the death penalty against Steve Nunn? He won’t say. [Stephenie Steitzer]
Republican deficit hypocrisy. Remember the Medicare drug benefit? [Forbes] ...
Just One Republican
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The GOP is trying to get voters to forget their fiscal recklessness over the last eight years. And the conservative media - which is sadly far too often just a partisan mouthpiece - is helping the amnesia along. One of the few principled fiscal conservatives in the Bush-Cheney years. Bruce Bartlett, is refusing to forget. He tells a classic tale of one Republican, Trent Franks of Arizona. Here is what Franks is now saying about the health insurance reform in the Congress: ...
Part D Republicans
Ezra Klein —
... Bruce Bartlett tees off on the Republicans who voted for the deficit-busting Medicare part D but now say their concern for the debt prevents them from supporting the deficit-improving health-care reform bill. ...
Trent Franks' short memory
Political Animal —
... -- was simply thrown onto the deficit, and Republicans were deliberately lied to about the cost (the Bush administration literally threatened officials who considered telling Congress the true price tag). When the vote was scheduled, the bill was defeated -- so GOP leaders kept the vote open for hours, bribing members to change their minds. Humiliated, Republicans demanded that the C-SPAN cameras be turned off, so Americans couldn't watch the soul-crushing antics. Bruce Bartlett reflects on this today , calling it "one of the most extraordinary events in congressional ...
Quote Of The Day
Below The Beltway —
... astonishes me that a party enacting anything like the drug benefit would have the chutzpah to view itself as fiscally responsible in any sense of the term. As far as I am concerned, any Republican who voted for the Medicare drug benefit has no right to criticize anything the Democrats have done in terms of adding to the national debt. Space prohibits listing all their names, but the final Senate vote can be found here and the House vote here.
– Bruce Bartlett
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links for 2009-12-02
Grasping Reality with a Ten-Foot-Long Flexible Trunk —
... Charles Goodheart: Insight: Deflating the bubble
Bruce Bartlett: Republican Deficit Hypocrisy
Jane Gravelle et al.: Economic ...
Who Is Sitting At The GOP’s Economic Roundtable?
Wonk Room —
... penned a piece saying that it was unlikely that a U.S. recession would occur. She also claims that medical bankruptcy is a “myth,” despite the fact that “the proportion of all bankruptcies attributable to medical problems has increased by 50%” since 2001.
Budget-Buster Jim Capretta: Capretta was President Bush’s Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and was the lead official on the budget-busting Medicare Part D plan.
Stimulus Critic Alex Brill: Brill ...
Republicans have zero credibility on deficits, debt and income redistribution
Blog For Arizona —
... "The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn't surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility."
So says Bruce Bartlett, a former Treasury Department economist and author of the new book: The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, writing for the conservative Forbes magazine Republican Deficit Hypocrisy:
This fact became blindingly obvious to me ...
McConnell Whitewashes GOP Medicare Hypocrisy
Crooks and Liars —
... bill for taxpayers. Still, the Medicare drug plan may cost as much as $1 trillion over the next 10 years (higher than the $900 billion overall price tag for Democratic health care reform) making it, as Bartlett noted , an "unfunded drug benefit, which added $15.5 trillion (in present value terms) to our nation's indebtedness." As for McConnell and the GOP's willing executioners of health care reform in Congress, ...
Republicans have zero credibility on deficits, debt and income redistribution
Blog For Arizona —
... "The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn't surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility."
So says Bruce Bartlett, a former Treasury Department economist and author of the new book: The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, writing for the conservative Forbes magazine Republican Deficit Hypocrisy:
This fact became blindingly obvious to me ...
Hatch Admits Hypocrisy: ‘A Lot Of Things Weren’t Paid For’ When Republicans Ran Congress During Bush Years
Think Progress —
... In 2003, when the Bush administration was already projecting a budget deficit of $475 billion in fiscal year 2004, the Republican-controlled Congress passed a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit that raised the deficit by $395 billion between 2004 and 2013. Despite enacting a massive, unpaid for entitlement expansion while in power, ...
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