re: #341 palomino

Don’t you understand that deficits are OK as long as the gop is in charge? From 2001-2008 we ran huge deficits and the only right wingers who really complained were the Paulians. Then Obama gets elected and conservatives immediately argue that debt means the end of America as we know it. It’s purely political.

That isn’t how I remember it. I remember many, many fiscal conservatives very unhappy with the previous administration and it was one of the reasons the repubs started losing seats in ‘06 (back when the dems thought deficits were a problem, remember Paygo?).

In Shift, Bush Emerges as a Budget Warrior
nytimes.com
Published: September 22, 2007

….But the president’s new tough talk on spending has also caught some fiscal conservatives in his own party off guard. After years lambasting Mr. Bush for letting government spending run out of control, they wonder what has gotten into him.
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Others see Mr. Bush reacting to Republican losses in the midterm elections of 2006.

“All of us are smarting from the lessons of 2006, and while people are right to point to factors like the war and scandal, I hold the view that the biggest scandal in Washington, D.C., was runaway federal spending under Republican control,” said Representative Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana.