The Blame Bush Card 3rd World Liberation Ideologue Barack Hussein Obama uses has gotten old. I was no fan of the Bush administration and was one of it’s fiercest critics. I got labeled a Communist, a traitor and an enabler for Al-Qaeda because of my Conservative based criticism of Bush. I still have a bad in taste in my mouth from my clashes with the Bush fanatics and I’m glad that era in Conservative politics is over. Obama however can’t let go of that time period.
The Bush years were a golden age to Progressives. They were able to attack the administration without any response. Anything that went wrong including hurricanes, bridge collapses and earthquakes were blamed on Bush. He did nothing to combat these smears and it lead to his political destruction. The irony off all this was that Bush oversaw the greatest expansion of the US government since LBJ’s Great Society. These attacks lead to the Republican collapses of 2006 and 2008. Once in power the Progressives continued to blame Bush. Obama did inherit deficits from Bush. Instead of trying to balance the budget and be fiscally responsible, he greatly increased the deficit and vastly increased the debt in just 2 years. Rather than man up and admit his responsibly for our fiscal mess, Obama resorts to the Left’s favorite tactic. He continues to blame Bush.
Your average poorly informed lefty (but I repeat myself) will reliably tell you that our current fiscal straits are the result of three things: 1. Bush’s wars; 2. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich; 3. Bush’s bank bailouts.
That is not true, of course: The main bank bailouts (odious as they were) have been paid back, often at a profit. The money-losing parts (and the likely money-losing parts) are the ones insisted upon by Barack Obama and his Democratic colleagues: the foreclosure-prevention programs, the endless maintenance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, etc.
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Definitional quibbles aside, the war spending and the Bush tax cuts don’t add up to a whole lot in the context of the $1.6 trillion deficit. What does?
The Department of Health and Human Services will see more than $900 billion in outlays in FY2011. About $83 billion of that is discretionary spending on things like the Centers for Disease Control. Almost all of the rest is Medicare and Medicaid — the two programs that President Obama has vowed to shield from substantial reform of the sort envisioned by Rep. Paul Ryan. The other big driver of spending, as the president himself acknowledged yesterday, is Social Security, meaningful reform of which he also promises to resist.
Read the rest: Not Tax Cuts, Not Wars, and Not Bailouts
As someone who was no fan of Bush, Obama needs to stop blaming him for the mess he’s created. If the job is too difficult for the current President, then he should resign or not run on re-election. Instead of paying off the credit card debt Bush left him, Obama has taken out 4 additional cards and maxed them out. Clearly his Demagogue style indicates the man is in over his head. Obama needs to man up or shut up.
Tags: Debt, Deficit, Kevin D. Williamson
