Reckoning Sure Is a Bitch

I love this stuff.  Absolutely love it.

Kristen Billy, who has returned as predicted by the love letter he wrote to us, has, once again, tried as hard as he can to invoke his Republican Fantasy World argument to shield his favorite president from any blame for crashing the country into a ditch.

The trillion dollar deficit in '09 was due to the Great Recession, not Bush's tax cuts or wars. Today's deficit is a function of Obama's spending, Obama's decisions on tax rates, Obama's decisions on defense spending, etc.

And you thinly the next year's deficit has nothing to do with the previous year? Disagree - it influences the next year but the people in charge have the ability to change fiscal policy to improve the shortfall

As if the deficit wasn't already huge and as if Bush hadn't already ran 7 previous budget deficits prior to 2009.  But in Kristen's world, a world where Iraq had something to do with 9/11, none of that matters.

Here's the thing.  The deficit, no matter the amount, is from George Bush.  He created it.  He inherited the largest surplus in American history.  And what did he do with it?  He turned it into the larges deficit in American history.  And during that time, not one word from Kristen Billy or any other Republican for Bush's recklessness.  Billy didn't care at all.  He loved it.  He cheered it on.  They all did.  Just this week Sen. Rubio called Bush "fantastic."  They do not acknowledge the fact that George Bush created a $1.5 trillion budget deficit and that he is responsible for $7 trillion of the federal debt.  They pretend it never happened.

Kristen Billy chillin' for the ladies

Billy can't stop there, however.  He tries to say the '09 deficit was due to the recession and nothing to do with Bush.  What about the 2010 and 2011 and 2012 deficits?  Oh no, those are Obama's so the economic crisis had nothing to do with that.  That's pure and complete fantasy.

It's true the economic crisis depleted government revenue because of the massive job losses. And as we all know, unemployment is still above 8%, which drastically reduces current revenue thus it's a continuing scourge on the budget.  But not according to Billy.  He specifically says it's "Obama's spending, Obama's decisions on tax rates, Obama's decisions on defense spending, etc."  Total lie.  He's a chronic liar brainwashed by Fox News.

George Bush increased spending by 108%.  In real dollars he increased spending by $1.3 trillion.  Barack Obama has merely increased spending by $600 billion, largely due to an increase in unemployment benefits.

As you can see from the chart above, spending is actually starting to decline under Obama. Since none of this is Fox News data, Kristen Billy will disregard it as he always does.  The importance of bringing this to the front page doesn't change, however.  This highlights the lengths Republicans go to disregard reality and factual information.  And the lengths they will go to protect their make-believe world.  They prefer to make up total lies just so they can sleep at night.

For further proof that there hasn't been a huge spending increase from Obama, take a look at this graph and post I brought up a few weeks ago.  It completely sums up everything Billy The Retard is trying to say right now.

Translation:  There is no spending binge from Obama that is to blame for the budget deficit.

Billy can't comprehend this, however.  It's the opposite of what he hears on Fox News, so it sends his body into shock.  And doing so proves me almost prophetic.

Here's what I wrote in March:

In their world the recession that began almost two years before Obama took office had nothing to do with the drop in tax revenue.  Also, two inherited on-going endless wars completely unpaid for had nothing to do with our budget mess either.  Neither did the completely unfunded $700 billion Republican expansion of Medicare.  And don't dare blame TARP on anyone but Obama either.  No they believe it was huge spending increases and ginormous growth in government that began with President Obama that is responsible for today's mess.

That's exactly what Billy is trying to do!!!  That's exactly what he just wrote in his comment.

Despite the fact that there is no spending splurge from Obama, any suggestion otherwise is a total lie. Despite the fact of the condition of the economy Bush handed over to Obama.  And despite the fact that Obama has actually cut defense spending, Billy denies it all.  He denies reality and insists-- just like all good God-fearing Republicans do-- that "[t]oday's deficit is a function of Obama's spending, Obama's decisions on tax rates, Obama's decisions on defense spending, etc."  Except for the fact that there is no truth to that, Kristen is right.

Just wait and see, such lies just like Billy is saying here will be the Republican meme throughout this campaign.  The deficits are from Obama's spending; Bush had nothing to do with Obama's runaway spending binge; Republicans are fiscal conservatives will be the battle hymn throughout the year.  It will be one big circle jerk where Republicans just like Kristen Billy bump their peter heads and pretend the guy they voted for twice shrunk government, cut spending and reined in the deficit.  Because, after all, that's what Republicans really believe they do.