We are here because a Jack-Ass started 2 wars while cutting taxes for the top 2%!

[jorno67]

Not because of social security or medicare! Did he think wars were free? Why aren't the Dems in congress saying this every time they speak???

[DCKit]

"He" wasn't alone. There were plenty of enablers. nt

[adhd_what_huh]

4. if enablers you mean republicans...

[adhd_what_huh]

1. 2 wars...WHILE...cutting taxes for the top 2%

[jorno67]

5. fixed! thank you!

[roguevalley]

22. and the jackass we have now didn't end the tax cuts when he had

majorities.

[jorno67]

24. I agree, but...

Even though be didn't end either the wars or tax cuts, I don't believe he would've started those wars or introduced the tax cuts. He just didn't have the balls to do the right thing.

[swilton]

42. +++++

Obama has done more damage to the Democratic Party from within than any Republicans have done from outside the Party.

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[sendero]

3. That's essentially correct..

... and the current POTUS has reversed NONE OF IT.

[Romulox]

6. Obama has been Commander in Chief going on three years, and started a third war of his own

while ramping up the other two.

He also signed onto tax cuts for the rich.

[cableman24]

7. you are correct.

[noamnety]

8. They aren't saying it because they were complicit. (nt)

[blkmusclmachine]

9. The "Democrats" have been complicit every step of the way since Day 1:

They cannot be absolved of their part in crashing the economy. They know what they are doing. That's "bi-partisanship" you can believe in. Drowning America in a bathtub.

[swilton]

43. I hope people wake up and realize this

The demonizing of Republicans - as if Democrats weren't there going along with them or in some ways were tied up and held at gun-point - is astounding.....From enabling Bush to with few exceptions failing to stand-up to Obama, they are part and parcel to this mess.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

52. Sad but true. nt

[liberalmuse]

10. Don't forget he hid the costs of those wars...

and Obama didn't - and that is why the deficit is as bad as it is under his watch. I also wish that there would be more reminders out there of just exactly who it was who got us in this mess. Perhaps it's because we're being played by both the media and Congress. There's no way these greedy pigs and their corporate sponsors are going to allow a default.

[dkf]

11. Ironic but the tax cuts for the brackets under the top 2% is the big expense.

Don't you guys realize the top 2% is 18% of the future projections on what the Bush cuts represent?

[WinkyDink]

15. Then they can spare the putting-back, no?

[dkf]

17. They can but it's not enough. We all need to give it back.

We never had the ability to let go of all that revenue.

George Bush just doesn't get any credit though. I think it's hilarious that we cling to his tax cuts while cursing him.

[WinkyDink]

57. Them that got, oughta give back. Yes, Obama made a devastating error in continuing the cuts.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. The Bush Wars and the Bush Tax Cuts are now the Obama Wars

and Obama Tax Cuts (he chose not to let them expire)....and every day this is becoming truer.

All you have to do is look at who the public blames ....still Bush and the Wall Street
fatcats ...but Obama will certainly rise to overtake them before the election UNFORTUNATELY

[bigwillq]

31. Yup.

Let's not forget that.

Good post. :thumbsup:

[treestar]

13. K&R

Blame the Republicans, they are the cause of it all.

[WinkyDink]

14. I believe you mean "War Criminal."

[MannyGoldstein]

16. Bush is a patriot

Show some respect, please.

[jorno67]

20. HA!!!!!

[Blue Owl]

18. Hate it when Dimson gets let off the hook

Democrats -- time to deflect the blame back onto its original source -- THE DECIDER.

:wtf:

[Common Sense Party]

19. That's not the ONLY reason.

That's a big reason.

But this has been going on and building up for a LONG time, and BOTH feckless parties are complicit.

[kath]

21. Absofuckinlutely!! Why are the so-called "Democrats" loathe to state this simple fact??

[R. P. McMurphy]

23. So succinct and so obviously true! (n/t)

[spanone]

25. there wasn't a whimper about 'budgeting' the wars...

[Puregonzo1188]

26. We're all here because of forty years of neoliberalism.

[jorno67]

27. huh? I don't understand your post...what started in 1971?

[L. Coyote]

28. Proper rhetoric is important. TPM: It's the "Republican Debt" stupid.

from:
Proper rhetoric is important. TPM: It's the "Republican Debt" stupid.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1603324



bush doubles annual defense expense


bush - clinton - bush

[jorno67]

33. thanks!

Great graphs!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. Why aren't the Dems in congress cutting funding to those 2 lost wars?

All these deficit hawks are still throwing money at these FUBAR wars and trying to cut programs that actually accomplish something.

[jorno67]

37. because they put politics first and the good of the nation second.

[Major Hogwash]

30. Right on, man!! It's un-American to cut SS and Medicare when they cut taxes during 2 wars!!

I don't know why the Tea Party Traitors can't understand that one simple concept!!!

[oldlib]

32. GWB was a disaster for this country.

How this complete incompetent could be president is beyond comprehension. The Republican party should be ashamed of itself for inflicting this nation with this idiot. Economic recovery is a problem that Oboma inherited, and the GOOP is still placing obstacles, to slow down his efforts.

[slipslidingaway]

34. Dems should have been shouting that each time the debt ceiling was raised ...

under Bush.

Then again they extended the Bush tax cuts in December and did not raise the ceiling at that time.

:(

[jorno67]

35. amen to that...

[slipslidingaway]

36. Did the Dems think the repubs would just go along ...

crazy.

[jorno67]

39. it's as if the dems aren't even on the same playing field

We representation that will fight for us!

[slipslidingaway]

51. Then one has to wonder why. n/t

[jorno67]

54. politics before country

[Obamanaut]

38. And then there's the 'surge' in those wars, the two new ones, and the extension of

the tax cuts.

The game is the same, but the players are different.

[Amonester]

40. And also because nobody ever "compromises" with us.

Why is it that we are always right, for example, when we knew all that and told it clearly so?

No. No compromises for you.

[jorno67]

41. haven't you learned....

Compromising is giving the right everything THEY want.

[CleanGreenFuture]

44. No, that is NOT why we're here.

[jorno67]

47. excellent point

????????

[Rex]

45. Not really sure why the Dems are not hammering the ever loving

crap out of the GOP over a zillion different things they've done so wrong it needs to be said over and over!

Guess they don't care.

[Jakes Progress]

46. Now why would a Democrat want to go saying that?

I mean. The truth is so blatant and so obvious that you are right, that we are in this mess because of stupid republicans - both elected officials and the idiots that vote for them.

So why would a Democratic congressperson or president not shout this every time the republicans open their yaps? Why would a Democratic president bend over and kiss republican butt by suggesting that the problem will be fixed if we can just cut that pesky SS and Medicare? No kind of Democrat I know would be that stupid.

[amborin]

48. and b/c he and O bailed out banksters to tune of $14 trillion & made taxpayers pick up tab

[B Calm]

49. Two unpaid wars while cutting taxes for the top 2% and somehow

it's Obama's Socialist Agenda.

[Bluenorthwest]

50. They cut those taxes on the same day they raised the debt

ceiling by the way.

[slipslidingaway]

53. Senate Republicans Raised The Debt Ceiling Immediately After Passing The 2003 Bush Tax Cut

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/04/11/173888/senate-debt-limit-flashback/

"...That “stimulus package” was the 2003 Bush tax cut. Here is the Congressional Record, showing that, right after approving the tax cut, the Senate made a “turn to the debt limit bill.”

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?position=all&page=S7087&dbname=2003_record

Thanks!

[jorno67]

55. Dems should be saying this every chance they get!

[slipslidingaway]

58. Yes they should! nt

[WinkyDink]

56. EXACTLY. WTH is the name "BUSH" so verboten??