By Chrissy the Hyphenated
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Democrats campaigned on two things: the Iraq War and Republicans were spending too much money.
Well, Petraeus, the general Bush put in charge, won the war in Iraq and Obama thankfully has not brought our troops home before the fragile Iraqi democracy is ready to stand against its enemies without our help. So let’s all give a round of applause to President Bush’s leadership that gained us a critical democratic ally in the middle of the volatile Middle East.
As for spending, yeah, the dirtbags in charge of both parties have been passing out the pork for years and the GOP did little to stop the red ink. But look what happened when Democrats took over Congress after railing about Republican spending. The rate of over-spending immediately INCREASED. And once they got hold of the White House, all bets were off.
Democrat spending managed to increase our nation debt to GDP by 45% in just FOUR YEARS!
The reason S&P reduced our national credit rating (for the first time since Pearl Harbor) is because our national debt is now nearly 100% of our GDP. If you owed as much as you earn in a year, you couldn’t get a loan either.
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Thanks for this, Chrissy. This is one of those things I can’t seem to get through the thick heads of my democrat friends. If I so much as mention Obama/Reid/Pelosi’s insane reckless spending, they counter with the fact that Bush and his cronies were also big spenders, which is true. But Obama and his buddies ran against Bush and his buddies on the grounds that the latter were spending the taxpayers’ money irresponsibly and endangering our economy and our way of life and so on ad nauseam. When Bush was president, I railed against his big spending ways as much as anyone; but for Obama to campaign against Bush by calling him fiscally irresponsible, and then to run what was left of our economy into the ground with MORE reckless borrowing and spending just gives new meaning to the word hypocrisy.
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