Just ranting here but frequently when a Republican is on CSPAN, they claim that Obama took a $500 billion dollar deficit in 2008 and turned it into a $1.5 trillion dollar deficit in 2010.
Am I missing something because the folks on CSPAN (or any other network for that matter don’t seem to call any of them on this.
I’m not saying that Bush could have avoided the deficit but the effort to make it sound like Obama has increased spending by a trillion dollars his first year in office is fucking ridiculous but people are buying it.
The only thing you’re missing is that no one wants to admit that the President is not responsible for every single thing that occurs from the moment he is sworn in until his successor is. If we did that, then we’d have to admit that trying to analyze the president’s personality would be pointless in the greater scheme of things, and political reporting would be completely unlike Entertainment Tonight. An entire industry, employing thousands of people, would be rendered irrelevant, and the news would anger and confuse most Americans, at least in the opinion of the people producing the current crap.
So what? When you’re POTUS, you take the good with the bad. That means you get credit for things that happened during your tenure that you didn’t cause, and you get blamed for things that happened during your tenure that you didn’t cause. It’s nothing new.
Well, there’s nothing new about any other kind of lying, either, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t call out a liar when you hear one. Which is exactly what the OP is doing.
Where can I read your rant about how Bush’s incompetence allowed this country to suffer through its worst terrorist attack in its history, turned Clinton’s $500 billion surplus to a debt of trillions, attacked the wrong country responsible for 9/11, made Americans less safe by encouraging worldwide extremism, and violated the law by torturing people? If its anything like your anti-Obama rants, they must be great!
So man-up. Let’s hear you give Obama some credit. Averting a total financial melt-down, saving the auto industry, preventing any major terrorist attacks, dealing with a deficit that was handed to him, getting the banks to pay back their TARP loans, keeping inflation low, dealing with the Europeans and their debt crisis, not interfering with Mideastern dictators that their citizens want to and need to overthrow, improving the international perception and influence of the USA, not nuking a Congress which is populated by mostly blithering idiots that hate democracy and America because the principles of America interfere with their quest to get reelected.
So man-up OBC, grow some balls and give some credit where it is due. Or do you just want to be a whiney malcontent that thinks that complaining far from reality is some kind of solution.
Wow - simplistic reporting! I am shocked to find that.
What is even better is that we are calling these Bush or Obama budgets, without noting which party controlled either the House or the Senate, how many voted for or against, and how many passes it took to get that particular budget done.
Then add in what percent of the budget is already fixed, and how much of the actual budget changes.
Nah - that takes work. FAR more fun to just blame the guy in the seat.
What matters is the budget that is passed by the House, the Senate and then signed by the President (or overridden I guess - not sure if a budget has ever been passed over a Presidential veto). We tend to short cut the description and the budget to only being about who is sitting the Presidential seat, when it takes Congress and the President to make a budget.