In their lead story today FNC painfully tries to claim today's Tea Baggers have their roots in the Sons of Liberty movement that is largely responsible for organizing the Boston Tea Party. Conveniently the Republicans at Fox News leave out the last 8 years and the fact that Barack Obama inherited the largest increase in government since FDR, the largest deficit in human history, and the most incompetent and least popular administration in American history. They leave out that this was all inherited from George Bush and his Republican Party not created by President Obama. So really if the Tea Baggers are protesting big government they are protesting themselves.
No one in the modern Tea Party movement is arguing that the taxes, the spending and the borrowing that has thus far been the hallmark of Obama and the Congressional Democrats’ plan for America amounts to taxation without representation. But they will argue that the larger principle, that the federal government’s current largess is unfair is very much a matter for discussion. Why? Because Washington has obligated all of us, and our children, to pay the costs of cleaning up a mess largely created by government in the first place — just as King George III looked to the colonies to help fund his global competition with the French monarchy. And, again just like King George III, Obama and the Democrats want to make us believe they are doing it for our own good and in our own best interests.That's just not true. The highlighted part especially. Obama has been in office for two months and has yet to even enact a budget. Obama inherited a $1.4 trillion deficit, he didn't create it. He also inherited the fastest growing government since FDR. This was the work of a Republican administration. Also, George Bush's final budget was $3.1 trillion. Obama's budget is $3.6 trillion. That's hardly a hallmark solely of Obama's.
No one increased spending more or faster than George Bush and his Republican Party. As you can see below, Bush and the GOP more than tripled government spending. Tripled it! Obama has proposed a 14% increase, which is nothing compared to Bush's 50% increase his first year in office.
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