Facebook

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Email

topics:

White House

Barack Obama

vote downundo vote up flag

washingtonexaminer.com - 3/27/2009

www.washingtonexaminer.com >> Politics

—

On Spending and the Deficit, McCain Was Right By Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 3/27/09 AP/ Mary Altaffer Barack Obama used to get very upset about federal budget deficits. Denouncing an "orgy of spending and enormous deficits," he turned to John McCain during their ...

3

politics.theatlantic.com - 3/26/2009

'Why Doesn't He Get It?'

— politics.theatlantic.com — Considering that Democrats last November won their most sweeping electoral victory since 1964, and now enjoy unified... control of government for the first time since 1994, the organized Left doesn't seem very happy these days. Some of that discontent ... (more) 'Why Doesn't He Get It?'

White House

Barack Obama

Comments vote downundo vote up The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 3/26/2009found this

2

washingtonexaminer.com - 3/25/2009

www.washingtonexaminer.com >> Politics

— washingtonexaminer.com — Obama surrendered his agenda last night By Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 3/25/09 President Barack Obama speaks... to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 23, 2009. From left are, National Economic ... (more) www.washingtonexaminer.com >> Politics

White House

Barack Obama

Comments vote downundo vote up PoliPundit.com found this 3/25/2009found this

4

dailykos.com - 3/26/2009

How whites really voted in 2008

— dailykos.com — Andrew Gelman over at Fivethirtyeight.com purports to show how whites at various income levels voted in 2008... at the presidential level, which is an interesting enough concept. However, Gelman inexplicably avoids using exit poll data to make his ... (more) How whites really voted in 2008

White House

Barack Obama

Comments vote downundo vote up FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right found this 3/26/2009found this

Leave a Comment

Obama and the Budget: A Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Hit & Run — ... and national debt in our history...Now we have a half-trillion deficit annually...and Sen. McCain voted for four out of five of those George Bush budgets." That was then. Now, President Obama is asking lawmakers to vote for a budget with a deficit three times the size of the one that so disturbed candidate Obama just a few months ago. And Obama foresees, for years to come, deficits that dwarf those he felt so passionately about way, way back in 2008. More here. Hat tip to both above: Charlie Spiering. For a definitive account of ...

John McCain, Vindicated
Ace of Spades HQ — John McCain, Vindicated Got to give the guy credit...he called it . Too bad so many guzzled the hopeychangey flavored kool-aid thinking they were one of the 95% that was going to get a tax cut. Orszag at first dodged the question, saying he was sure the final Obama budget will "reflect a fiscally sustainable path." But the questioner persisted: Are those deficits sustainable? Relenting, Orszag said such deficits, in the range of five percent of the Gross Domestic Product, "would lead to rising debt-to-GDP ratios in a manner that would ultimately not be sustainable." The simple ...

False Pretenses
Power Line — Byron York catches up with John McCain to revisit the distant past--late 2008--when Barack Obama was a budget hawk: Barack Obama used to get very upset about federal budget deficits. Denouncing an "orgy of spending and enormous deficits," he turned to John McCain during their presidential debates last fall and said, "We have had, over the last eight years, the biggest increases in deficit spending and national debt in our history...Now we have a half-trillion deficit annually...and Sen. McCain voted for four out of five of those George Bush budgets." ...

Unheeded Warnings: Our Road To Hell Was Paved With Evil Intentions - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — DC Examiner: On Spending and the Deficit, McCain Was Right By Byron York Barack Obama used to get very upset about federal budget deficits. Denouncing an “orgy of spending and enormous deficits,” he turned to John McCain during their presidential debates last fall and said, “We have had, over the last eight years, the biggest increases in deficit spending and national debt in our history…Now we have a half-trillion deficit annually…and Sen. McCain voted for four out of five of those George Bush ...

Brainster's Blog — McCain Was Right Byron York: I asked McCain what might happen if Obama and Orszag get their way. First, the U.S. could have to print a lot of new money, "running the huge risk of inflation and returning to the situation of the 1970s, only far worse," McCain said. The second option is to raise taxes. Just this week, former Clinton budget director Alice Rivlin conceded that Obama's budget could present a "scary scenario" that would "raise deficits to unsustainable levels well after the economy recovers." The solution, she wrote, is ...

Promises, Promises
Nice Deb — ... McCain and Palin were excoriated for accusing Obama a far left  tax and spender. Here’s McCain at a campaign stop, last October: They were accused of lying, but were they? The point was that Obama was promising so many things that to pay for them he would eventually have to raise taxes on people making far less than $250,000. Look out, McCain warned — someday he’ll come after you. And that is precisely what is happening: The deficit issue could be one ...

Byron York
Sister Toldjah — On Spending and the Deficit, McCain Was Right