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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 982586" data-attributes="member: 17969">Re: Obamanation here todayAndrew Sullivan, a Gay GOP conservative tells it like it is...<a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/george-w-bushs-tab.html" target="_blank">George W. Bush&#039;s Tab - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast</a>&quot;&quot;When you check reality, rather than the alternate universe constantly created by Fox News and an amnesiac press, you find that Bush had a chance to pay off all our national debt before we hit the financial crisis - giving the US enormous flexibility in intervening to ameliorate the recession. Instead, we had to find money for a stimulus in a cupboard stripped bare - its contents largely given away, by an act of choice. I&#039;m tired of being told we cannot blame Bush for our current predicament. We can and should blame him for most of it - and remind people that Romney&#039;s policies: more tax cuts, more defense spending are identical. With one difference: Bush pledged never &quot;to balance the budget on the backs of the poor.&quot;&quot;&quot;PeaceTOS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 982586, member: 17969"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] Andrew Sullivan, a Gay GOP conservative tells it like it is... [url=http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/06/george-w-bushs-tab.html]George W. Bush's Tab - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast[/url] ""[SIZE=4][B]When you check reality, rather than the alternate universe constantly created by Fox News[/B][/SIZE] and an amnesiac press, you find that Bush had a chance to pay off all our national debt before we hit the financial crisis - giving the US enormous flexibility in intervening to ameliorate the recession. Instead, we had to find money for a stimulus in a cupboard stripped bare - its contents largely given away, by an act of choice. I'm tired of being told we cannot blame Bush for our current predicament. We can and should blame him for most of it - and remind people that Romney's policies: more tax cuts, more defense spending are identical. With one difference: Bush pledged never "to balance the budget on the backs of the poor.""" Peace TOS [/QUOTE]

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