Can we throw the Tennessee Republican Party off the boat with the tea? Because this “protest” they’re organizing tomorrow is simply laughable. Not a peep out of these people about White House economic policy for the last eight years and now they find their voices?
“This is not about political parties or partisanship,” said TN GOP spokesperson Bill Hobbs, winner of the 2008 Liberadio(!) Jive Turkey Award. Not about partisanship? Really? So where was your organized protest when:
- President George W. Bush was spending like a drunken sailor?
- When our government’s discretionary spending – fueled by President Bush’s refusal to veto a spending bill, any spending bill – was increasing in 2001-2007 at an average annual rate of 5.3 percent?
- When President Bush lied about his nasty little discretionary spending habits?
- When a Republican-controlled congress enacted, and George Bush signed, a 2002 farm bill that caused agriculture spending to double its 1990s levels
- When the same congress and president rammed through a $295 billion “porkulus” 2005 highway bill?
- When Peggy Noonan wrote, “George W Bush is a big spender. He has never vetoed a spending bill. When Congress serves up a big slab of fat, crackling pork, Mr Bush responds with one big question: Got any barbecue sauce?”
- When we found out about the pallets of cash?
- When we found we were about to cross that “bridge to nowhere?”
- When it became clear that Governor Bush’s campaign promise that income tax cuts would be “especially focused on low and moderate income families,” actually played out like this: the wealthiest Americans received an average tax cut of $123,000, the bottom one-fifth of households received an average tax cut of $27, the one-fifth of households received an average tax cut of $647.
- When President Bush said he was “pleased with” the $170 billion economic stimulus package that he signed into law on February of 2008.
- When we realized that George Bush’s “war, wealth, and oil” spending was, at its core, a crony capitalist’s redistribution of wealth?
So the question to Hobbs, Robin Smith, and the TNGOP is, wasn’t it “our money” from 2001-2008, too? Didn’t the government have their “hands in our pockets” when George W. Bush was president?
Excuse me, dude, but your partisan hackery is showing.
