Meanwhile, GOP Pols Have "Become Deficit Hawks Again"

by Damozel | As Tom Raum says at AP, they didn't seem to mind spending taxpayer money like drunken CEOs when they were in power.

Now that they aren't?  They want a "restrained" answer to the massive erosion of the economy they created.  Yes, they've morphed back into "responsible" guardians of the public purse strings. 

Republicans.  There's nothing they won't posture about, or politicize.  The article includes a great round-up of GOP quotes about "responsible" spending on saving the economy, if you feel the need to laugh bitterly or anything. 

John Aravosis:

The economic debate highlights yet another reason why Republicans have no credibility....

For the record, as this AP article notes, when George Bush took over with a GOP Senate and GOP House, our country was on track to have surpluses. Now, we've got a $1.2 trillion deficit adding to the enormous debt. So, the GOP's new-found fiscal discipline rings hollow -- and is cravenly political....

Once the final stimulus package is presented to Congress, opposition to it has to mean opposition to fixing the economy. Are the Republicans who created the mess willing to push the country off the cliff into a depression? That's the question.

Too little and too late, dudes.  Too little and too late.  I mean:  come on.  Even their very special form of wartime spending didn't help to create jobs or wealth.  And we all know why, don't we?

At AMERICAblog, commenter Nicho speaks for most of us here:

And Obama wants to reach out to these hypocrites? If they hadn't handed over several trillion dollars to corporate crooks over the last eight years, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.

First, we take all the money back that went to Halliburton, Blackwater, Bechtel, GE, KBR, etc. Then, we take back the obscene CEO salaries. Then, we put them all in jail. Then, we get on with our lives.

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