Dan Bartlett, the 1600 Crew chief mouthpiece, was making the rounds of the morning shows to prep them for beloved leaders monologue in mea culpa (as if). Bartlett, if you remember was the tool who claimed back in the days of yore that Preznit Deserting Coward's personal physician was in Houston, which is why he missed his mandatory Flight Physical...Bartlett's lips moving...Bartlett lying.
A pinstriped Dan Bartlett made the morning show rounds today, appearing on ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, to preview the President's prime time speech.
On GMA, Bartlett responded in the negative to Charlie Gibson's suggestion that the "astronomical" cost of Katrina plus Iraq plus health care might require the nation to raise taxes.
"It unfortunately requires us to deficit spend," Bartlett said. "The worst thing that we could do is raise taxes. It would only hurt the economy."
Got that? "Unfortunately requires us to deficit spend". These crooks have deficit spending down to an art-form. What's actually true is that it would be less harmful to the economy to pay for this as it goes by increasing tax revenue, especially in the long term. But they've lied so loudly and for so long about paying as you go (ie tax revenues to offset spending) that if they did not insist on deficit spending now, the wheels would come off their Voodoo EconomixMobile in the middle of the town square and they'd be eternally painted as what they are: lying shit sacks who are ruining the economy at a prodigious pace.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.15.05 at 12:06 PM
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And you know, the sad part is that since the deficit is greater than the annual interest payment on the national debt, we don't even make the interest payment--we just add it to the debt.
