Orrin Hatch tries rewriting fiscal history

[Jim Lane]

CQ Politics has about the passage of the stimulus package and reactions to it. The highlight is this knee-slapper from Orrin Hatch:

"This is a partisan plan . . . to explode the size of government,” he said. “Why? Because the more you explode it, the more you get people dependent upon the almighty federal government and the liberals who have been running us into bankruptcy all these years." (emphasis added)

Um, Orrin? No one this side of Free Republic considers George W. Bush a liberal. Indeed, even on FR they don't consider you a liberal, and I'll hazard a guess that you voted for the tax cuts for all the Iraq War spending. But, hey, if you think talking about who's been doing what for "all these years", go for it. That's a discussion we're happy to have.

[Deja Q]

1. Orrin needs to be hatched. What a friggin' nut.

I'm sorry, but Bill Clinton (a liberal to these folks) BALANCED THE SODDING BUDGET.

More to the point, the liberals haven't even had any majority between 2001 and 2007. 6 years. And that's when the budget when from a surplus to start paying back the national debt... to having the debt virtually DOUBLED under the reign of a "conservative" triumvirate.

Like "The party of Lincoln", "The party of fiscal responsibility" is more empty, hypocritcal CANT.

And God bless President Obama for standing up and openly discussing revisionist politics; his clever slam on Bush and his 8 years of budgetary tomfoolery.

[DrDan]

2. the GOP will be hard at it for the next couple of years

they do not have much to be proud of - and they know it.