Comments on: Teabaggers: Only Republicans are Allowed to Run Up Huge Deficits http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:46:46 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: darter22 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1879040 darter22 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:07:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1879040 <p>I think “teabagging” is what the Rethugs have been doing to each other for a long time.<br /><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com" rel="nofollow">www.urbandictionary.com</a></p> I think “teabagging” is what the Rethugs have been doing to each other for a long time.
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]]> By: wmd1961 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1879004 wmd1961 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:11:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1879004 <p>Bush 43 2nd term budget is partly responsible for FY 2009 is my guess. He owns a pretty big chunk of the $2T deficit this fiscal year.</p> Bush 43 2nd term budget is partly responsible for FY 2009 is my guess. He owns a pretty big chunk of the $2T deficit this fiscal year.

]]> By: JEP07 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878974 JEP07 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:40:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878974 <p>“the Teabaggers will stop dry-humping Reagan’s coffin…”</p> <p>PLEASE, can we see that in a Horsey cartoon???</p> “the Teabaggers will stop dry-humping Reagan’s coffin…”

PLEASE, can we see that in a Horsey cartoon???

]]> By: dakine01 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878960 dakine01 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:22:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878960 <p>My guess is that the chart was done a few years ago, prior to the end of Bush II 2nd term</p> My guess is that the chart was done a few years ago, prior to the end of Bush II 2nd term

]]> By: Taser http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878959 Taser Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:11:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878959 <p>Is there a reason why there’s no column for Bush 43 2nd (term) in the second graph? Not that I doubt that it’s within the rest of the Reps in terms of the debt, but it seems a little strange to cite the value for that term in the first graph (debt/GDP), and not the second.</p> Is there a reason why there’s no column for Bush 43 2nd (term) in the second graph? Not that I doubt that it’s within the rest of the Reps in terms of the debt, but it seems a little strange to cite the value for that term in the first graph (debt/GDP), and not the second.

]]> By: wmd1961 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878953 wmd1961 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:17:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878953 <p>The one that gets me is when they talk about the Great Depression.</p> <blockquote><p>FDR’s New Deal spending didn’t end the Great Depression because you can’t borrow and spend your way out of it.</p> <p>WWII ended the Great Depression (by borrowing and spending our economy back to health, but that part gets left out).</p></blockquote> <p>How was necessary spending to destroy a bunch of European and Asian infrastructure and kill massive numbers of productive people world wide good for the economy?</p> <p>Spending to assure people had dignified lives after retirement and improve the infrastructure of the US was wasteful and ineffective?</p> <p>Borrowing after WWII to rebuild Europe and Japan was good for the economy.</p> The one that gets me is when they talk about the Great Depression.

FDR’s New Deal spending didn’t end the Great Depression because you can’t borrow and spend your way out of it.

WWII ended the Great Depression (by borrowing and spending our economy back to health, but that part gets left out).

How was necessary spending to destroy a bunch of European and Asian infrastructure and kill massive numbers of productive people world wide good for the economy?

Spending to assure people had dignified lives after retirement and improve the infrastructure of the US was wasteful and ineffective?

Borrowing after WWII to rebuild Europe and Japan was good for the economy.

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878951 Raven Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:15:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878951 <p>somehow I knew that :)</p> somehow I knew that :)

]]> By: oldnslow http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878949 oldnslow Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:09:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878949 <p>Not here.</p> Not here.

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878948 Raven Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:07:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878948 <p>And government jobs aren’t real jobs but if you cut the defense budget you are costing Americans jobs. That’s what you really smart people call a “meme”.</p> And government jobs aren’t real jobs but if you cut the defense budget you are costing Americans jobs. That’s what you really smart people call a “meme”.

]]> By: Synoia http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878947 Synoia Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:03:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/teabaggers-only-republicans-are-allowed-to-run-up-huge-deficits/#comment-1878947 <p>GOP = Greedy Old party.</p> GOP = Greedy Old party.

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