Quote of the Day (Pt. I)

"If you want the government in your pocket vote Democrat. If you want to keep more of your hard earned money vote Republican."
-President George W. Bush (today)

This is a joke (no, not the quote- that is real- but the fact that he said it with a straight face).

The last place this government has been out of is our pockets. They've raised healthcare costs, cut American jobs, and otherwise made life more difficult for the working and middle classes. This government has also been in our homes, in our bedrooms, in our schools, in our science labs, and on our phones. They're such busy-bodys, they make even the most stereotypical 'big government' liberal blush.

In addition, this administration, and the current Congress, have been the most fiscally irresponsible leaders we have had in at least 50 years. Ignore the moral and economic insanity of offering tax cuts during wartime (never been done before), where is all this excess spending going? Important New Deal-esque programs that will benefit the country for decades? NO. It goes to war, pork/earmark projects for congressmen, and more war.

The current leadership has accrued the largest deficit in our nation's history. They've had to raise the debt ceiling and borrow billions from China just to stay solvent. But the President knows that the average American does not care about those consequences (deficits, underfunded schools and social services, soldiers without body armor and lower benefits, etc) as long as they get a few extra bucks in their wallet come tax time. But a real leader, an adult leader, makes the tough decisions, asks for the sacrifices from those who can afford it.

George W. Bush is not an adult leader. He's a bad parent who pissed away his savings spoiling his kids rotten.

I end with the following quote from Matt Miller, host of KCRW's 'Left, Right, and Center', from last week's show:
"It is amazing, when it is so clear now, after the Clinton administration's record, and what we've seen under total Republican control in D.C. now, that Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility. Yet it is next to impossible to change the public image of Democrats being the ones who are loose with your money. It flies in the face of what the facts are today."

Facts mean nothing in politics, apparently.