Mickey Kaus
Dems should thank Bush for his tax cuts
But let’s assume that wouldn’t have happened, and Congress would have spent exactly the same amount during Bush’s presidency as it did–the deficit (thanks to the higher taxes) would just have been lower when the Dems next took power. Does anyone think that, even with a lower deficit, it would have been easier to start paying for their ambitious health care plan by raising top income tax rates from 38.9% to 42.8% than it has been for Dems to raise the rate from 35% back to 38.9%? …
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The tea party thanks all of them for displaying what whores, tramps, and thieves they are. (Yeah that’s thayrone-speak)
platypus on January 2, 2013 at 5:17 PM
D’s should thank Bush for a lot of things: rolling back taxes from their historical high, removing Saddam Hussein, overthrowing the Taliban, beating the hell out of Al Qaeda, and enacting a Medicare prescription drug benefit that they could blame him for the costs of when planning all the while to make it more expensive than his original version.
GWB was a political foil for them to bash for doing many of the things that this nation needed done, and which they knew perfectly well that this nation needed done. They tacitly have admitted this by extending 98% of his tax policies (100% for the first four years after his departure), by keeping Guantanamo open, and adopting many of his other national security policies. And they knew all along that these policies were better than the ones they claimed to favor.
Chuckles3 on January 2, 2013 at 5:18 PM
Fixed.
I’m not huge fan of W, but lowering tax rates was one of the best things he ever did for the economy.
UltimateBob on January 2, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Other than Ted Cruz, I may be the last remaining Bush fan on the
Republicanconservative side, and yes it was. W was a true conservative (1) fiscal – tax cuts and promoted supply side, (2) social – pro-life, against stem cell and appointed anti-abortion judges & (3) national security – War on Terror Iraq. After the War on Terror, the Bush tax cuts were his best achievement. The man truly believed in conservatism, and even his errors which I disagreed with (immigration/NCLB/Medicare D) were from trying to compromise with the Marxists.When the GOP moderates ceded the political ground of conservatism, the electorate shifted us to a center left country.
sauldalinsky on January 2, 2013 at 6:13 PM
I’m still waiting for Dems to thank Bush for the NSA being able to spy on Americans, and for renditions, and for Gitmo, and for getting the info Obama needed to kill OBL by using enhanced interrogation techniques.
But I’m not going to hold my breath.
Socratease on January 2, 2013 at 6:30 PM