While white politicians and so-called “conservative media” continue to defend the abysmal fiscal record of President George W. Bush and the national Republican Party, leave it to an African-American columnist with the uber-liberal Washington Post to call them out for being the “frauds” they are.
Thank God for Eugene Robinson, people, who took to his soapbox yesterday to deliver one of the most stirring indictments of “Bush Republicans” we’ve ever read:
Since George W. Bush became president, the Republican Party has presided over massive, out-of-control government spending, converted a federal budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit, and looked the other way while Wall Street’s greed and stupidity turned the hallowed free market into scorched earth. Now the party has to watch as a Republican president orchestrates the biggest government intervention into the workings of the private sector since the New Deal.
Can any Republican candidate claim with a straight face to represent the party of small government? For that matter, can any Republican candidate plausibly explain what the party is supposed to stand for these days?
It’s pathetic to hear right-wing talk radio blowhards try to associate Barack Obama with “radical” or “socialist” views when a Republican administration is tossing aside “Atlas Shrugged” and speed-reading “Das Kapital.”
All we can say to that is “Hell to the Yeah.” Seriously, people … this is precisely the same message we’ve been screaming for years, and Robinson couldn’t have nailed it any better.
Whether in Washington, D.C., Columbia S.C. or dozens of other state capitals across the country, Republicans are once again going to have to sleep in a bed entirely of their own making.
By SCHotline Intern's October 15, 2008 at 11:19 am
My friend you seem to forget this thing called 9/11 that created a deficit of necessity. You seem to forget that it was house & senate democrats that blocked fannie & freddie reforms… Having said that you are mostly right, maybe it is just a senior moment but I don’t recall any outrage on scale required regarding the latter from Republicans…
By T4 October 15, 2008 at 11:25 am
This shit’s on point. Great discussion to cover.
By James October 15, 2008 at 11:50 am
Did 9/11 create Medicare Part D?
Did 9/11 create a never-ending war in Iraq?
Did 9/11 cause w to lose his veto pen?
Did 9/11 creat the budget hole in South Carolina?
How can house dems and house senators block fannie and freddie reform when republicans controlled both chambers? Or was that because of 9/11 also?
Throw away the 9/11 CRUTCH, it didn’t work in the 2006 mid-terms and it’s really going down in flames in 2008 (pun intended).
True conservatives in S.C can do our part by sending Socialist Joe and Socialist Lindsey into retirement.