What Digby says

Naturally...

I saw the 60 Minutes story on the runaway budget crisis and what purported HAS to happen. I also saw the discussion of how in six years "politicians" managed to fuck up all of it. But there was something missing, and elephant in the room so to speak:

Excuse me, but where were he and 60 Minutes during the past six years when the Republicans blew a record surplus and dug us into a hole so deep he now says the republic is in danger?

Damn these people. Every single time these crooked Republicans get in power they line their pockets with taxpayer funded boondoggles and tax cuts for their rich supporters then start rending their garments over the looming fiscal catastrophe they created and demand the government stop spending on all those parasitic old people and children (whose "failure of citizenship" apparently dwarfs that of the corrupt thieves who stole the nation blind and threw buckets of money down the toilet in expensive failures like Iraq.) Oh, and raising taxes is completely unacceptable.

Republicans have proven once again that they are out of control children who completely trash the country's fiscal integrity whenever they get a chance, requiring the Democrats to come in and do the painful things that are required to fix them. And every step of the way, they Republicans dog them with absurd "tax and spend" rhetoric.

It's a great racket for the GOP but it's long past time the nation put a stop to this insanity. It would be helpful if 60 Minutes at least put some of that in perspective when they get on the "responsibility" train and explain to the American people why this is. "Those days are gone" is not adequate.

If there is any pattern of behavior we have seen the last six years it is this:

The GOP (in the form of Bush and a fabulously enabling and greedy Congress) fucks up royally and then refuses to discuss HOW they fucked up so royally. They then insist on a new policy course that simply takes up ever more deeply into a disaster -- forbidding (and usuing a tool like Liebeman to get away with it) any discussion as to how it happened.

It happened with 9/11; it happened with Iraq; it happened with Afghanistan; it happened with the Medicare prescription program; it happened with Katrina; it happened with Korea; it will happen with Veteran's Treatment; and it will happen with the U.S. Attorney's scandal. Naturally it has happened repeatedly with fiscal policy.