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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
No, he's not particularly measured singularly against Bush, but all the Congressional posturing from Republicans is nauseating considering that they had zero problem with running up all sorts of spending when it was Bush doing it, but all the sudden they have a problem with spending and want to return to fiscal conservatism.
It's transparent and nobody is falling for it. Republicans don't get to sit back and decide they care about reining in spending now, and talk a big talk, when they've spent the last eight years spending like mad people. Then again, having credibility in any argument at all hasn't exactly been their strong point since the turn of the century, so I shouldn't be all that surprised, really, that they still haven't managed to find any now.
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Yes Brian Bush was a big spender and that was the big problem with him. It is also the problem with the Republican party in that they did not have the backbone to stand firmly against it.
With that said, two points;
1) As big a spender as Bush was, he never came close to anything like this. This huge allocation of funds for mainly pork barrel projects is unprecedented.
2) If Bush's spending was the problem, if the last 8 years of failed policies are what caused this downturn, then why are we doubling down on these failed policies? Obama is going the wrong way, we should be reigning in government spending and cutting taxes and stimulating private investment.