Contrary to Aaron Bonn's assertion, Roosevelt ran a budget deficit _every year_ after he was elected. It is true that he campaigned as something of a deficit hawk in 1932, and partly in response Hoover drastically raised taxes with the Revenue Act of 1932, now widely regarded as a disaster in the middle of a huge economic contraction.

But this idea that Roosevelt balanced the budget every year until World War II is utterly wrong.

that's what i meant -- wording error.

Yes, rank-and-file Democrats and anti-Bush activists called George Bush lots of names. I recall nothing similar to the outrageous bully at this summer's town hall events, however, and that it is not the point, anyway.

I am referring to the behavior of elected representatives and GOP party leaders. I can't say many good things about the pusillanimous behavior of elected Democrats during the Bush years, but I will contend that they did not come anywhere near embracing the utter falsehoods that current Republican _politicians" are happy to push. When a sitting Senator of the United States makes an oblique reference to Nazi Germany when referring to President Obama, that calls for some pushback.

my apologies, ari. fixed.

the support for a permit application is not a joke, but everything else is. but what is so, so, sad about our current political climate is that I wasn't even sure it was still a joke after i finished making it all up.

formatting error cut out the mccartney quote.

it's fixed.

If the ad was six months to a year old, I wouldn't be so embarrassed. But FOUR YEARS! My only excuse: It predates the blog. Because I am ashamed to say, I didn't check because I assumed that I would ALREADY have heard of this outrage.

To make matters worse, I didn't even read the entire Wikipedia entry that I linked to.

Not my finest moment.

But still: What the hell were they thinking? SIXTEEN TONS?

I stand before you, head down, humiliated at my own orthographic consistency.

My outrage blinded me, or my wrath fried my copyediting synapses, or something.

Oh, and, if you think the pushback that I get any time I rant on whatever the hell I feel like ranting about is going to have any effect on my ranting frequency, all I can say is, you have come to the wrong blog.

sorry Michelle!

American Academy of Family Physicians.

I think I created three different bogus lobbying groups in my original post.

I am chastened.

You make a good point.

er, that was supposed to be "lobby"

Because the Off - of headline typo was all mine.