Obama's suggestion box: 'Bottom up'

Don't forget the naughts (2000-2009), because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. You want less regulation? You got less regulation. Open markets? Wide open. An illusuion of security in place of rights? Hey, presto. You want unlimited power given to military contractors so they can kick butt and take names? Man, we handed out boots and pencils by the thousands. Everything, everything, that ever showed up on a drooled-over right wing wish list got implemented -- with a side order of Freedom Fries.

They will try to disown it, and God knows if I was responsible for this mess I'd be disowning it, too. But the truth is that the conservatives got everything they wanted in the decade just past, everything that they've claimed for forty years would make America "great again". They didn't fart around with any "red dog Republicans." They rolled over their moderates and implemented a conservative dream.

What did we get for it? We got an economy in ruins, a government in massive debt, unending war, and the repudiation of the world. There's no doubt that Republicans want you to forget the last decade, because if you remember... if you remember when you went down to the water hole and were jumped by every lunacy that ever emerged from the wet dreams of Grover Norquist and Dick Cheney, well, it's not likely that you'd give them a chance to do it again.

Because they will. Given half a chance -- less than half -- they'll do it again, only worse. Because that's the way conservatism works. Remember when the only answer to every economic problem was "cut taxes for the rich?" We have a surplus. Good, let's cut taxes for the rich. We have a deficit. Hey, cut taxes for the rich even more! That little motto was unchanging even when it was clear that the tax cuts for the rich were increasing the burden on everyone but the wealthy. That's just a subset of the great conservative battle whine which is now and forever "we didn't go far enough." If deregulation led to a crash, it's because we didn't deregulate enough. If the wars aren't won, it's because we haven't started enough wars. If there are people still clinging to their rights, it's because we haven't done enough to make them afraid.

Forget the naughts, and you'll forget that conservatives had another chance to prove all their ideas, and that their ideas utterly and completely failed. Again.

The point of remembering bad events is to stop them from repeating. So remember, and remind others if they start to forget. Because really, this is one trip to the water hole we can't afford to repeat.

The Naught's??

Is this slang for something dirty?

I'm wondering how the Naught's held control over anything for the last eight years? I mean, that's a long and rambling rant there about those Naught's and the evil ways of Naughtdom, how terribly bad those Naught's are, unproductive and destructive and all.

Let's see? are the Naught's the political party that has controlled Congress for the last, of almost four years now? Are the Naught's the political party that has pushed for the biggest and most damaging legislation this Nation has ever produced?

Are the Naught's the political party that has tripled the US Debt and deficit?

Oh Lex, you just have a serious imbicle complex with added confusion of who's who in politics. Kinda like the Obama noise machine.

Hey Plouffe....how are those "Audacity to Win" booksales going?

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Are the Naught's the political party that has tripled the US Debt and deficit?
Posted by: springfield | January 5, 2010 2:32 PM
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Clown,
Why yes, Bushco did nearly triple the deficit.

Well played, Grasshopper.
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http://agonist.org/amc/20090123/bushs_two_term_increase_in_the_national_debt
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Well said, Lex. When people grade the last last decade, they need to remember this (from Bob Herbert):

As The Washington Post reported over the weekend, the entire past decade “was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times.” There was no net job creation — none — between December 1999 and now. None!

The Post article read like a lament, a longing for the U.S. as we’d once known it: “No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less than 20 percent.”

Middle-class families in 2008 actually earned less, adjusted for inflation, than they did in 1999. The data for 2009 are not yet in, but you can just imagine what happened to those families in that nightmarish downturn. Small children over the holidays were asking Santa Claus to bring mommy or daddy a job.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/opinion/05herbert.html?hp

On Obama’s Back Burners

I bet that when Barack Obama won his current job as president that he didn’t expect he would have to cut short a Hawaiian vacation by one whole day–and a full 9 days after the attempted Islamic terrorist attack on Christmas Day!

C’mon now, a prez and his family deserve a lil’ r&r too, right?

So what if Bush was raked over the media coals when he dillydallied in Crawford while Americans in the 9th Ward were doing the backstroke in the wake of Katrina because they refused to evacuate and because New Orleans Mayor Nagin insisted on Greyhounds rather than use school buses to save his people?

Obama knows he’s immune from media criticism, because he’s the Anointed One, the Obamassiah, and he did reduce Hawaiian sun-basking time by 24 hours.

Now he has to get back to work with both front and back burner pressing issues.

Front Burner Issues:

. Obamacare still has to wend its way through Congress but it looks like a shoo-in now. The Democrat Senate and the Democrat House will surely work out their differences for their Democrat president, and they’ll do it in secret, thank you very much: http://bit.ly/7v8CAt . . .

(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1408)

HHH once more your math is way off. Bush doubled it in eight years as this country was in two wars. And it is the debt and not the deficit. Now the deficit is a different story in which Obama triple in from what was spent in the previous year. He has already added in only one year two trillion dollars to the debt. And the Iraq war is winding down so who is the one spending like a drunken sailor on a Saturday night bender. If you are going to use math to argue a point you should first do the math. In Illinois the new American Revolution begins in February and ends November 2012.