12/06/2010 - The Day Liberal Progressives started caring about the Deficit....

[FrenchieCat]

01/20/09 - The Day Conservatives started caring about the Deficit.

At some point, everyone comes around.
America is once again UNITED! :patriot:

[FrenchieCat]

1. Tax cuts add to the deficit!

Spending on the stimuls adds to the deficit!


Everyone agrees, Deficit bad; President Bad.

WE ARE FAMILY!

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Oh please. You'll be a deficit hawk when the Catfood austerity measures are proposed

:eyes:

[CreekDog]

21. Eat your cat food and be grateful

we got you an upgrade from hampster pellets. :spank:

[Milo_Bloom]

3. Liberal Democrats have been SCREAMING about the deficit for years.

Half of Howard Dean's campaign was about fiscal conservation.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. Shhh.....Don't bring up inconvenient facts. eom

[CreekDog]

22. know what's interesting? The OP thinks she's helping Obama

:rofl:

not helping! :bounce:

[JaneQPublic]

5. Howard Dean made the deficit an issue in 2004...

...when he was running for president. At that time, GWBush's two wars were raising the deficit to then record levels. Dean is known as a liberal but he's always been a pretty solid deficit hawk.

But as you point out, the GOP wasn't concerned about the deficit then. And as we all remember, Dick Cheney was arguing then that deficits don't matter.

[Phx_Dem]

6. He's not a progressive. He's a fiscal conservative (his words).

[Hello_Kitty]

7. No True Scotsman.

[ej510]

8. Tax cuts aren't fiscally conservative, it's fiscally stupid.

It's a fiscal disaster.

[Phx_Dem]

18. Tell that to Dean who aired commercials claiming the opposite. See below

In Iowa and New Hampshire, his campaign is airing a commercial promoting Dean as a "fiscal conservative who cut state income taxes -- twice."

On the campaign's website, Dean is even more specific, saying that his two cuts reduced the state's top income tax rate from 13.5 percent to 9.5 percent.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/12/07/deans_tax_claims_bring_skepticism/

[Milo_Bloom]

14. Not mutually exclusive.

[Phx_Dem]

19. Again, "his words." Dean said his tax cuts made him a fiscal conservative.

In Iowa and New Hampshire, his campaign is airing a commercial promoting Dean as a "fiscal conservative who cut state income taxes -- twice."

On the campaign's website, Dean is even more specific, saying that his two cuts reduced the state's top income tax rate from 13.5 percent to 9.5 percent.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/12/07/deans_tax_claims_bring_skepticism/

[Milo_Bloom]

25. Again, not mutually exclusive.

[CreekDog]

9. Now you are misrepresenting liberals...pretty low

many liberals were concerned that the deficit would crowd out spending for people.

[kysrsoze]

17. Yeah, the true Republican platform - drown the govt in the bathtub

Norquist said that a decade ago. I swear, DU is loading up with a lot of the same people who have no grasp of facts or history, just like FR.

[GoCubsGo]

24. Yep.

And, it pisses me off mightily that the Democrats are, once again, aiding and abetting it.

[craigmatic]

10. Republicans never really cared about deficits it's all about power and money to their people.

We started caring about the deficit since 2001 when Bush started these damn tax cuts in the first place.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Ahhh-men!

craigmatic

[jpgray]

11. Which liberal progressives supported the Bush tax cuts?

[kysrsoze]

13. Bullshit. Where have you been for the last few decades?

Remember when people used to complain about defense spending, like thousands of redundant warheads, the B1-B and $1,000.00 hammers? Didn't think so.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. ROFL

:rofl:

[wndycty]

16. K&R

:kick:

[doc03]

20. I have been concerned about the deficit since Ross Perot n/t

[GoCubsGo]

23. It's not the deficit I'm concerned about.

It's how it's going to be dealt with. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, government agencies, like the National Park Service, the EPA, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, NASA, the Dept. of Education, etc., will continue to be gutted when the republicans controlled all of the government. Federal employees will not get deserved COL raises--if they keep their jobs in the first place. And, new jobs won't be created.

[frylock]

26. it's refreshing to see someone so willing to put their absolute ignorance on display..

for all to see. bravo!

[awoke_in_2003]

27. Liberals just now started worrying...

about the deficit? Where the hell have you been. It is one of the main arguments for ending these 2 extremely stupid wars. Of course, we can't do that- we will just raise retirement age and find some poor people to screw over.