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Bush Derangement Syndrome, 2011

By Joseph Lawler on 7.12.11 @ 10:34AM

Megan McArdle catches the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities blaming President Bush for laws Obama signed.

As McArdle notes, it's a bit much to label the projected debt represented by the orange segment "Bush-Era Tax Cuts" when Obama signed them into law in December, and presumably will let them lapse at the end of 2012.

At what point does Obama become responsible? He could have done something about the lower tax rates and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq anytime since his elections. They are his policies.

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JP| 7.12.11 @ 11:09AM

Using that logic, the JFK Tax Cuts of the 1961 robbed the federal government of $5 trillion.

Occam's Tool| 7.12.11 @ 11:11AM

Vermin T Maggot, Attorney at Law, proud Honors Graduate of HLS. POTUS. Asshat.

Occam's Tool| 7.12.11 @ 11:13AM

Over 63% of Obama's class graduated with Honors, by padding their GPAs with easy electives at Harvard's School of Education.

University education without the rigor of the Sciences or the Classics is a Joke.

Richard Baker| 7.12.11 @ 1:42PM

Occam:
Do they have Underwater Basket Weaving classes in the Ivy League and at Harvard, specifically?

CalMark| 7.12.11 @ 3:10PM

I worked with a lot of State Department people, the alleged "creme de la creme" of the Ivy League.

If Marxist ideology were intelligence, those folks would be geniuses. That aside, they had shockingly paltry actual competence (as opposed to "book smarts") in any area: personal, professional, social.

LC Jackboot| 7.12.11 @ 4:19PM

When are we going to see someone that has the intestinal fortitude to counter these lies? Only in the leftist world can taxes NOT collected be considered DEBT.