Letters to the Editor
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The well is dry
Does anyone beyond the Beltway seriously give the "It was all 9/11's fault" any credence anymore? Does anyone in the GOP realize it is time to move on from that topic, that the shelf date has long since expired on it? Just wondering.
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Debt/Deficit
Of course it's the deficit that's supposed to decline over the next five years, not the debt as Duncan claims. Not that it matters in any case since this stuff is really about demographics. As Baby Boomers retire Social Security, and especially Medicare, shoot upward where the sky's the limit. Of course, by then people like Bush and Duncan will be history--and so, too, will be the benefits I just mentioned.
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Did Wolf Call Him Out?
I didn't see it, but I would imagine not (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). Usually they make outrageous statements like that and the interviewer moves on, as if there's nothing more to be said.
Thats the primary MO for the media in passively validating this BS.
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Whatever Duncan's on....
I want some. It takes a truly marvelous hallucinogen to get yourself to see the world that way.
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Riiiiiight...
Because the Civil War, World War I, World War II, those were all just walks around the block, now weren't they?
What are they smoking over at the RNC?
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Let me finish his sentence
but the bottom line is, what other president has faced a calamity like 9/11
and gone out and done something as stupid as attack another country that had nothing to do with the attack on ours?
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One of those questions
What did you expect him to say:
"well we have spent the last 6 years engaging in a protracted exercise in fiscal vandalism."
"Wolfey-baby -- if you want the answer read Jonathan Chait -- the Big Con"
"Hey Wolf, you know we are at war, but the GOP still takes its marching orders from Grover Norquist, a guy who wants to destroy the US gubmint more than Osama Bin Laden -- but don't call him a traitor now, and guilt by association only apples to Democrats photographed next to Frenchmen and Al Sharpton"
"But Wolfe, as our great VP Cheney says 'Reagan Proved that Deficits don't matter -- and they don't, seriously; anyway do you want to pay the same tax rate as your secretary."
"well you know, the secret truth is that we are a pack of gobshites, and the President is a halfwitted dullard who had to be bailed out of every business venture he got into by his daddy's friends, but he and Cheney really understand supply side economics, and eventually the trickle down will fix everything."
And Wolf, being such a great interviewer, slapped himself on the head and said "f*ck me, 9/11, how could I have forgotten!!!"
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"We"
"Wolf, I could get into a long explanation about the percentages and why we actually are bringing down the debt and over the next five years"
Ok never mind the vaporware explanation, just tell me who the "we" is in that statement. The Congress is a democratic majority, Bush is a lame duck president and the chances of the next president being Republican is small, so who is the "we" that is bringing down the debt?
To me it suggests that Duncan is inferring that Republicans are better able to reduce the debt when out of office or the minority party. Thanks Duncan for that clarification.
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"...giving hope to the American people."
That's rich.
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lying bastard
see, here we go... idiocy so profound I can't take it anymore.
The RNC chair is a duplicitous, lying bastard. We could have dealt with the problem of 9/11 without spending over a trillion bucks to enrich Dick Cheney's pals in the military-industrial complex.
A careful black-ops, costing not very much at all, would have taken out Al Qaeda, and bin laden, and it barely would have made headlines. But it would have sent a far more effective message to anyone thinking of trying something similar: we'll get you, and you won't even see it coming.
Somehow, it seems to me that would have been a far more powerful message than the trainwreck in Iraq.
Jesus. What a contemptible waterhead. Among the various things that I do not look forward to as I get older, is having to hear people like this, say things like this. Clearly, he thinks we're all so stupid we barely deserve to live. From where I sit, he's the one about whom that characterization is most accurate.
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What other president has faced a calamity like 9/11?
How about Roosevelt. At Pearl Harbor we were actually attacked. As in by another nation state not a rag-tag handful of fanatics. As in with an entity that has real weapons and isn't trying to use a large aircraft as a substitute for real weapons.
What the hijackers did on 9/11 was a crime; it wasn't a military attack. And if we'd had any kind of actual leadership in Washington at the time, they wouldn't have come up with this fruitcake "war on terror" and they wouldn't have unleashed our military on a quixotic and fruitless assignment that has neither captured the masterminds behind the 9/11 crimes nor has it suppressed any terror networks. Quite to the contrary, we have seen an explosion of them.
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If their lips are moving.......
they're lying.
The big question is why are they still being given any credibility by the media and why do we give the media credibility by going along with the charade and reacting with our predictable outrage.
It's all so old and tired.
Investigate, Indict, Impeach - nothing else matters right now, especially spinning wheels over another armchair warrior, Bush-butt-boy loser, like Duncan Hunter.
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Regan also ballooned the national debt
Regan, another great conservative, added over $3 trillion to the debt. When he took office the natinal debt was around $1 trillion. When he left it was around $4 trillion!! Now that's republican fiscal conservatism at it's best!
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Come on, now
It makes no sense to expect the president to bear responsibility for the terrible shape our country is in. It does make sense for him to pretend the country is in great shape and take credit for that fantasy.
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Fiscally Conserve THIS!
"but the bottom line is, what other president has faced a calamity like 9/11?"
Please. FDR inherited the Great Depression and had WWII; and as others pointed out, the Civil War and WWI weren't walks in the park, either.
I'll concede that no other president has: 1) been less prepared to deal with a major national calamity; 2) screwed up so monumentally before, during, and after the event; 3) proved more willing to pursue narrow-minded, short-term, partisan political gains at the expense of the larger national interest; 4) more stubbornly pursued wrongheaded policies in the wake of it; and 5) been less willing to accept the responsibility for their screwups than this administration has.
Sorry, but "fiscal conservatism" is a rhetorical smokescreen for "dismantling America's social safety net." Pure and simple, demonstrated by their policies and actions -- if it means privatizing Social Security, killing Medicare, gutting the Department of Education, butchering consumer product safety, etc. -- they're all for it. Tighten those belts, America.
But if it means driving trucks full of money to military contractors and the defense industry, propping up corrupt, dictatorial Third World regimes, and cutting taxes on the rich, then they're all for it.
They don't want the image of them kicking the poor (and middle class, what's left of it) to the curb, to they pretend to be fiscal conservatives. But in practice, it holds no water.