Yes He Spent Like a Drunken Sailor

Bush sympathizer writes:

"Yes, if you're arguing that Bush spent money like a drunken sailor, then we should cut it back."

The truth is Bush added over $1.3 trillion of new spending to the federal budget.  There's no denying it.  He did it.  How anyone can call that a fiscally conservative led government is smoking crack.  Or how anyone can say that's not spending like a drunken sailor is quite maddening.

But Bush didn't just add over one-trillion of new spending.  He slashed federal revenue too. That means he doubled spending and cut income.  It doesn't take too smart of a person to figure out that's a recipe for disaster.

The point to all this isn't spending versus deficits.  It's that now all of a sudden Republicans claim they are against spending.  They call it socialism and Big Government takeovers.  Not one time, however, when Bush was busy creating the largest deficits in history with his trillion dollar extravaganzas, did Republicans ever feel the need to cut spending.  But now it's their favorite thing to call for.  In fact, spending is such a threat to the nation that Obama must CUT it immediately or we face annihilation.  Mentioning how spending got to where it is today, or how the deficits came about, is treason.  What matters is Obama must CUT, CUT and CUT some more.

It would take a mad people to believe Republicans have any care in the world when it comes to fiscal responsibility.  Listening to them would be like Jeffrey Dahmer saying we need to immediately do something about all the serial killers.

*Update:

Romney's New Spending Doubles Bush's

So how Serious are Republicans about spending cuts.  So Serious that CNN Money reports Mitt Romney's budget blueprint for America will add an additional $2.1 trillion of new spending over 10 years.  Yes that's right.  The guy Kristen Billy is giddy to vote for will double Bush's spending spree.  But isn't Billy telling us we need to CUT, CUT, CUT?  Sure he is. That's because Democrats are in charge now.  As soon as they're out, deficits won't matter again and spending will be Patriotic.

Bush only added $1.3 trillion over 8 years.  And just like Bush, Romney's plan has no mechanism to raise any money to pay for the new spending.  But don't worry, we'll be Free and Tough after we cut revenues even further and spend like there's no tomorrow.

Romney is the Republican in the race so he's naturally the fiscal conservative who will finally rein in the budget, slash deficits and shrink government, and he claims that's exactly what his budget does.  Anyone who disagrees with their assertions are terrorist hippies that want to destroy the Union.

Until it's time for Romney to add $2 trillion of new spending to the budget, we must CUT, CUT, CUT.