Majority of Americans blame the problems with Obamacare on Donald Trump, not Barack Obama.

Courtesy of The Independent:  

A majority of Americans blame Donald Trump’s administration for any future problems with Obamacare, a new poll has found. 

Carried out by the Kaiser Family Foundation, it found 61 per cent of respondents believe the US President and his Republican Party are responsible for any issues with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 

Only 37 per cent said Barack Obama's administration - who introduced it in 2010 - would be at fault for fewer enrollments.

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Although Republican efforts to repeal and replace the ACA have failed, the party’s actions have been blamed for forcing prices for Obamacare plans up in 2018. 

The Trump administration slashed the Obamacare budget for advertising by 90 per cent and significantly reduced spending on groups that help customers find the appropriate insurance plan.

The 2018 open enrolment period for the health insurance exchange is also only running for six weeks, which is half as long as last year. 

Analysts say these measures increase the likelihood of less people signing up to the ACA.

Good, I am glad that most Americans are seeing through the Republican's bullshit. 

And it is important to remind people that EVERY SINGLE problem that happens with health care in this country moving forward is directly the fault of this administration.

You can bet your ass that if Hillary Clinton had been elected that she would have been working to make Obamacare function better, not trying to destroy it from within.

Bill O'Reilly does not blame himself for being a sexual deviant, he blames God for letting him get caught.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly blamed reports of sexual misconduct on a politically motivated media. On Monday, he admitted that he also blames a higher power. 

"You know, am I mad at God? Yeah, I'm mad at him," O'Reilly said on the latest episode of his web series, "No Spin News." "I wish I had more protection. I wish this stuff didn't happen. I can't explain it to you. Yeah, I'm mad at him."

Damn, I have heard about people being completely incapable of self awareness, but to actually blame the God who claim to worship instead of taking responsibility for your actions is a whole new level of denial.

I think in many ways Bill O'Reilly is an emotional doppelganger to Donald Trump.

Two arrogant megalomaniacs completely unable to accept responsibility for their mistakes and determined to shift the blame to anybody else.

Even if they are an imaginary sky god.

P.S. I wonder if O'Reilly also blames God for his talent agency dropping him like a hot potato after learning about that 32 million dollar payout?

John Kelly sacrifices his dignity to protect Donald Trump and to attack the Congresswoman who dared criticize him.

John Kelly confirms that Trump made insensitive remarks to widow of Green Beret. Just wishes no one heard him do it pic.twitter.com/6hfo5ZHAuP

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) October 19, 2017

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly ripped into a congresswoman who's been at the center of a controversy over a phone call President Donald Trump made to the family of Sgt. La David Johnson, a Green Beret killed in an ambush in Niger on October 4. 

"I was stunned when I came to work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what I saw a member of Congress doing," Kelly said in an extraordinary White House briefing on Tuesday, referring to Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson who said Trump told the grieving widow that Johnson "he knew what he was getting into," setting off two days of controversy over the president's perceived insensitivity. 

Kelly later described Wilson as an "empty barrel" in a "long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise."

By the way Rep. Wilson was a family friend who was IN the car with the family as they traveled to retrieve the body of this young woman's dead husband as it arrived at the airport. It was the family that put the call on speaker phone.

Kelly then went on to say that HE was the one who told Trump to say that the soldier "knew what he signed up for," which he claims was what he was told by the officer, a family friend, who contacted him after his son was killed in the line of duty.

Kelly's contention was that Trump meant well, but perhaps phrased things indelicately.

Of course that flies in the face of every single thing that we know about Donald Trump.

Kelly also went on to lament the loss of things that were once held "sacred" in this country, such as women, life, religion, and Gold Star families.

Treatment of Gold Star families was once "sacred," Gen. Kelly says; "I think that left in the convention over the summer." pic.twitter.com/C7Ox48iFQN

— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 19, 2017

Of course Kelly seemed to forget that it was his boss who disrespected the Khans, a Gold Star family, during the campaign.

As for women, he just finished attacking a female member of Congress.  (By the way that was even made more egregious by the fact that he essentially confirmed, despite what his boss had said, that she had been telling the truth.)

In his remarks Kelly confirmed that President Obama did not call him after his son died, but said that it was not a bad thing since it is hard for presidents to call everybody especially if there are frequent casualties.

However he failed to mention that he attended a White House hosted Gold Star family breakfast at which he sat at table with Michelle Obama.

It was clear from the outset that Kelly had been sent out to preform clean up duty for Trump.

However to do that Kelly had to reveal that he was essentially comfortably seated in the basket of deplorables who will stick with Donald Trump no matter what he might do, or how he might damage the country. 

And since a number of us were hoping that Kelly was somehow able to exert some control over Trump, that is very troubling to learn.

I am now left questioning John Kelly's integrity, and wondering if he is someone that can be counted on to rein in Trump's worst instincts, or if he is pouring gasoline on the embers of anger and frustration that Trump seems always to have smouldering under the surface?

New Trump campaign ad identifies Democrats and the media as the enemies of success.

WATCH: DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC. RELEASES NEW CAMPAIGN AD #MAGA pic.twitter.com/pV2G9u64be

— Official Team Trump (@TeamTrump) August 13, 2017

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

“Democrats obstructing, media attacking our president, career politicians standing in the way of success. But President Trump’s plan is working,” the advert stated.

“One million jobs created, more Americans working than ever before, unemployment: lowest since 2001, the stock market: all time record high, the strongest military in decades. The president’s enemies don’t want him to succeed, but Americans are saying ‘let president Trump do his job’,” the advert added. 

The campaign advert, whose message was approved by President Trump, reiterated the message put out by the president, particularly in recent months, that he is being blocked by Democrats despite having a majority in the White House, the House and the Senate.

So Trump approved this ad huh? Well that's interesting.

So he has no problem accusing Maxine Waters, Joe Scarborough, Elizabeth Warren, and Anderson Cooper of being un-American, but he can't bring himself to say the same about the Neo-Nazis? 

Well that's pretty telling.

Personally I don't call the media and Democrats blocking Donald Trump's plans "obstructionists."

I call them HEROES.

New investigation launched into Michael Flynn's ties to Russia. White House spokesperson now blaming Obama.

Courtesy of CBS News: 

The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee said he doesn't understand why the White House is "covering up for Michael Flynn" after President Trump fired him. 

At a Thursday morning press conference with members of the House and Senate, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, said that the office of the Defense Department inspector general will be launching its own investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's dealings with the Russian government, specifically his apparent failure to disclose payments by a foreign source. 

"General Flynn's attorney says he discussed his trip to Moscow with the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), but we have no evidence, not a shred, that he disclosed his payments which is what he emoluments clause is all about, from RT, the Kremlin-backed propaganda outlet. And we have no evidence -- zilch -- that he obtained permission from the secretary of the Army and secretary of State to accept any foreign government payments as required by law," said Cummings. 

"[The White House] should be bending over backwards to help us. It does not make any sense, and it makes the American people think the White House has something to hide," he said. "Here is a paper trail that the White House does not want our committee to follow, but let it be known we will follow it and we will follow it with everything we got." 

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has called the Oversight Committee's request for documents from the transition period "ridiculous," and he also said that everything under discussion occurred before he was employed by the Trump administration. 

That's right the newest White House strategy is to blame the Obama Administration for not vetting Michael Flynn better.

This was Sean Spicer yesterday.

In short the Trump Administration is blaming Obama for not doing the job that THEY should have done before appointing Flynn National Security Adviser.

However they are forgetting one important detail.

As Liar Sean Spicer tries to blame Mike Flynn's Russian dealings on President Obama, let us all remember, MIKE FLYNN WAS FIRED BY OBAMA! 👍

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) April 27, 2017

Yes, yes he was.

So knowing this WHY would the Trump Administration not investigate why that happened and then conduct their own security clearance? 

Hmmm?

Just a reminder as to who is really to blame for Donald Trump. That's right, John McCain.

Sure this will be fine. I mean it's not like she is going to forever damage the Republican party or anything.

Courtesy of the Daily Banter: 

While there are many competing theories as to why the Republican Party has gone completely off the rails in recent times -- and probably all of them partially correct -- one figure in the GOP can be held primarily responsible for its descent into intellectual and moral depravity. And that figure would be Sen. John McCain. While this might seem a stretch to pin the emergence of Donald Trump on the actions of John McCain, when you look at the effect of his presidential candidacy in 2008, it becomes clear that his actions alone legitimized politicians like Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, and Donald Trump. Because if he hadn't foisted Sarah Palin upon the nation and gave the darkest elements of the American psyche validity on the national stage, there's a good chance we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now with the very future of the human species on the line. 

While there has always been a sizable minority of fundamentalist, conspiracy theory prone lunatics in American society, for the most part mainstream society has managed to marginalize them. But as soon as McCain decided that the only way to revitalize his ticket after the disastrous Bush years was to bring on a barely literate airhead who was more interested in using campaign donations to expand her wardrobe than run for office, every moron with a gun and a 4x4 started believing his opinion actually mattered. And as the feckless media continued their "both sides are equal" mantra, they started to.

It must be remembered that Sarah Palin did not emerge by herself. She was plucked out of almost complete obscurity by McCain and his team, and touted as a "breath of fresh air" for the party and the country. At the age of 71, you could understand why McCain chose a younger woman to boost his favorability amongst women and young people, but he did no vetting whatsoever and is single handedly responsible for giving credence to a woman with no business running for office. The Palin phenomenon was a terrifying sight to anyone with a functioning brain and concern for the future of the country, and McCain's implicit endorsement of unadulterated idiocy as a legitimate political philosophy should be seen as an act of treason.

Perhaps I take a little too much pleasure in articles like this.

However since I was beating this drum with all my might as far back as 2008, it always feels good to have others join the percussion section alongside me.

Yes John McCain is most assuredly the man who blazed the way for a Donald Trump candidacy, and despite every other achievement he may want to claim for himself, history will never forgive him.

Oh, and I almost forgot, I told you so.

Politico tracks down the person responsible for the "Birther" movement, and no it was not Hillary Clinton.

Andy Martin, self proclaimed "King of the Birthers."

Courtesy of Politico: 

After years of denying the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency, it was only in the midst of his own presidential campaign that Donald Trump began falsely claiming Hillary Clinton was the true progenitor of the “birther” conspiracy theory claiming Obama was not born in the United States. 

But that’s swapping one discredited claim for another. Numerous fact checks, reports and interviews — in 2008 and 2011, when Trump revived the controversy — revealed that although some Clinton supporters circulated rumors about Obama’s citizenship, the campaign and Clinton herself never trafficked in it. 

“There has never been evidence that Clinton or her campaign started the birther rumors,” said Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed, who as a POLITICO reporter in 2011 linked the origin of the “birther” movement to a fringe politician in Illinois. Some hardcore Clinton backers circulated the rumors in 2008, but the campaign itself steered clear. 

“As we reported, some of her supporters flirted with the idea in 2008 — but it has its origins in the fever swamps beginning in Illinois in 2004,” he said. 

In fact, birtherism, as it’s been called, reportedly began with innuendo by serial Illinois political candidate Andy Martin, who painted Obama as a closet Muslim in 2004. That spiraled into a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists to raise doubts about Obama’s birthplace and religion — and essentially paint him as un-American. 

In fact Martin was so proud of his attempts to question the legitimacy of the Obama presidency, that he referred to himself as "The King of the Birthers."

But ultimately it really doesn't matter.

Even IF the birther thing had been started with the Clinton 2008 campaign, which it was not, the fact remains that it was Donald Trump that pushed it into the national spotlight, and Donald Trump who refused to accept the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate even years after it was produced for the media.

So for Trump to attempt to blame all of this on Hillary is incredibly pathetic and indicative of a man who simply lacks the character to take responsibility for his actions and his mistakes.

John McCain claims that President Obama is "directly responsible" for the shootings in Orlando.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the elder Republican statesman, said President Obama was “directly responsible” for the terror attack in Orlando due to his failure to combat the rise of the Islamic State terror group. 

He answered the question about the gun debate by citing Obama’s culpability for the attack through his foreign policy. 

“Barack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama’s failures,” McCain said. 

When pressed by a reporter on the claim that Obama was “directly” responsible, McCain reiterated his point — that Obama should not have withdrawn combat troops from Iraq. 

“He pulled everybody out of Iraq, and I predicted at the time that ISIS would go unchecked, and there would be attacks on the United States of America,” he said. “It’s a matter of record, so he is directly responsible.”

You know I have heard John McCain say some truly despicable things about our President over the years but to blame him for what happened to all of those innocent people in Orlando, Florida is completely and utterly indefensible.

Later McCain tried to soften it with a follow up tweet:

To clarify, I was referring to Pres Obama’s national security decisions that have led to rise of #ISIL, not to the President himself

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) June 16, 2016

Yeah, fuck that. He said it and I am sure that he meant to say it.

Gee and all of this time we kept assuming that Sarah Palin was foisted upon McCain during the 2008 election, only to learn that he essentially thinks just like she does. 

By the way President Obama is in Orlando right now talking to the survivors and consoling the families of the victims.  So blaming in for that tragedy right now, even in a bullshit passive aggressive manner, is beyond disgusting.

Alabama Congressman says that President Obama is "the most racially divisive President" since slavery. Say what?

Courtesy of Mediaite:

Brooks discussed the president’s State of the Union speech on The Dale Jackson Show yesterday, where he said without a hint of irony that it was rich to hear the most “racially divisive” president in the last 150 years bemoan divides between political parties. 

“There probably has not been a more racially divisive, economically divisive president in the White House since we had presidents who supported slavery,” Brooks said. While he conceded that Obama couldn’t be considered the worst ever when compared to presidents who tolerated African American enslavement, Brooks went on to declare that Obama was definitely the worst since the Civil War ended in 1865. 

Host Dale Jackson later remarked how racial tensions have become an increasingly sensitive sociopolitical point in past years; Brooks responded that it was part of Obama and Democrats’ goal to sharpen the divides between various groups and compensate for policy weakness.

Do you believe that people spout this garbage? 

You know the reason why these idiots think that the President is racially divisive?

Because the minute the first black president was sworn into office, hell before he was even elected, the racists from all over came swarming out of the woodwork to complain bitterly that "their country" was being taken away from them.

All the President had to do to earn their scorn, was to exist.

And by the way does anybody else look at a picture of Congressman Mo Brooks and think it looks like he just then pulled off a white hood?

Jeb Bush blames the success of the Donald Trump campaign on....President Obama?

"Ooh I got an idea. Let's blame everything on Obama! Nobody's tried that before!"

Courtesy of Politico: 

Speaking to NPR’s Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition, the former Florida governor took jabs at the party’s leading presidential candidate while opining about his own political future.

“I would argue that Donald Trump is, in fact, a creature of Barack Obama,” Bush said during the Boston-based interview, set to air Thursday. 

“But for Barack Obama, Donald Trump’s effect would not be nearly as strong as it is. We’re living in a divided country right now, and we need political leaders rather than continuing to divide as both President Obama and Donald Trump, to unite us,” he said.

Okay as my father would have said, "That is a huge pile of horse pucky!"

If Jeb! wants to learn why the country is so divided right now he needs to look no further than his own party, their propaganda machine Fox News, and the Tea Party insurgency.

If anything President Obama went above and beyond in his attempts to work with Republicans and to form a coalition to gets things accomplished for the people of this country.

And what did he get for his efforts?

He was treated like shit, called a secret Muslim, and even had people (Including the current front runner for the GOP nomination) accuse him of lying about where he was born.

So fuck you Jeb Bush.

John Boehner suggests that the Democrats are not serious about gun control, and that "The president can rail all he wants."

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

If Democrats really cared about gun violence, they would have done something about it when they were running Washington, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) charged Wednesday. 

Boehner was responding to a question about whether or not Congress should reconsider barring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from studying gun violence as a health issue, especially since Republicans have repeatedly argued that addressing mental illness is the way to prevent mass shootings. 

Boehner said the the topic has not come up in his talks. 

"I don’t think there’s been any discussions at this point. It’s not been part of the discussions," he told reporters on Capitol Hill before expressing sympathy for the nine people killed and nine more wounded in last week's massacre in Roseburg, Oregon. 

"We’ve seen far too many of these," Boehner said, before putting the onus on Democrats. 

"In '09 and '10, we had Democrat majorities in the House and Senate. We had a Democrat president. And this clearly was not a priority for them. The president can rail all he wants," Boehner said, referring to President Barack Obama's angry denunciation last week of Congress' failure to address the issue.

Actually the Democrats HAVE repeatedly attempted to pass new gun legislation in the wake of these horrendous massacres and have been blocked time and time again.

As for Boehner's contention that the Democrats had a filibuster proof majority in '09 and '10 well that is not exactly accurate.

And finally addressing Boehner's comment on mental health, well if he wants to encourage the Republicans to start pouring billions of dollars into the poorly funded mental health programs, that is very welcome news.

However he and his fellow straw man manufacturers should know that it will not prevent a single death from gun violence in this country.

Hillary Clinton gives Jeb Bush the smackdown over his contention that the Obama administration lost the Iraq War by bringing American troops home.

Hillary and Bill Clinton in Iowa.

Courtesy of Yahoo News:  

"I find it somewhat curious that Jeb Bush is doubling down on - defending - his brother's actions in Iraq," she said at a press conference during a campaign stop at a state fair. "But if he's going to do that, he should present the entire picture. And the entire picture, as you know, includes the agreement George W. Bush made with the Maliki government in Iraq that set the end of 2011 as the date to withdraw American troops." 

Jeb Bush, a leading contender for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election, has said Obama, and by extension Clinton, bungled a chance to leave behind a contingency force of about 10,000 troops when American forces left Iraq in 2011. 

Clinton, though, said the Obama administration had worked "to persuade the Maliki government to permit continuing American support for the Iraqi army." 

"Maliki did not want a continuing American presence," she said.

You know I said back when Jebbie first made this argument that it would be incredibly simple for Hillary to knock the ball back into Bush's court, and she has done exactly that.

And when it comes to what America should do about ISIS moving forward I think Clinton once again reflects the country's desire to keep out troops out of harms' way.

"This has to be an Iraqi-led mission," she said. "I think we have to do more and I hope we will do more to try to get the whole region together to drive ISIS out of the territory that they occupy, to rescue the people they have enslaved, predominantly women."

I am once again stunned that Jeb Bush has advisers who are not able to see what a stupid idea it is to try and blame ANY of Iraq's current problems instead of where is really belongs. And that is to George W. Bush and his  neocon administration.

Here is a tweet I saw recently that explains this incredibly well.

Perhaps most succinct explanation of who is 2 blame 4 Isis. U get 2 guesses at the 2 culprits http://t.co/oCcYJiUsft pic.twitter.com/j8MgAvNlPN

— Patrick M (@andendall) August 14, 2015

And with that just drop the mic, because there is really no more that needs to be said.

Good question.

Yes of course this sign, and the church, are fake. But if they weren't would you think of attending?

Because I think I might.

Guy has perfect response when Fox News asks to use his video.

Apparently it was just a video that captured a tornado at the Rose Bowl.

In fact here it is. 

But still, he's not wrong.

North Korea claims they had nothing to do with Sony hack. Offer to participate in joint investigation.

Courtesy of HuffPo:

North Korea said U.S. accusations that it was involved in a cyberattack on Sony Pictures were "groundless slander" and that it was wanted a joint investigation into the incident with the United States. 

An unnamed spokesman of the North's foreign ministry said there would be "grave consequences" if Washington refused to agree to the joint probe and continued to accuse Pyongyang, the official KCNA news agency reported on Saturday. 

On Friday, President Barack Obama blamed North Korea for the devastating cyberattack, which led to the Hollywood studio canceling "The Interview," a comedy on the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. 

In its first substantive response to the accusation, the isolated North Korea said it could prove it had nothing to do with the massive hacking attack. 

"We propose to conduct a joint investigation with the U.S. in response to groundless slander being perpetrated by the U.S. by mobilizing public opinion," the North Korean spokesman said. 

"If the U.S. refuses to accept our proposal for a joint investigation and continues to talk about some kind of response by dragging us into the case, it must remember there will be grave consequences," the spokesman said.

Just a suggestion, but if you want to convince America you were not involved in a cyber terrorist attack you might want to avoid making any further threats. 

Okay well now I don't know WHAT to think.

I mean it does not seem likely that the President would go on national television accusing this country of being behind the hack if he were not 100% sure of that. However this response from North Korea is completely unprecedented.

You know the more I think about this story the more I imagine Seth Rogen and James Franco high as shit sitting in a room several years ago saying "Let's make a movie that will attract all kinds of bad attention from a country that hates us and see how that goes."

One of the things to keep in mind is that in this day and age something like this was always going to happen at some point. In a way Rogen and Franco were simply in the right place at the right time.

Ted Nugent claims that people who hate him, hate America. Because you know THAT makes perfect sense.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

On Tuesday, Ted Nugent called the mayor of Longview, Texas “clueless,” “dishonest,” “racist,” and claimed that he had “bamboozled the good citizens of Longview.” Last month, the town withdrew its invitation to have him headline its annual July 4 Fireworks and Freedom Celebration. 

When the invitation was revoked, Mayor Jay Dean said that Nugent’s concert “didn’t really fit what we trying to put together, a family oriented program…and I confirmed with his thoughts that that probably wasn’t the right act. And I still feel that it was the right decision. It just didn’t fit with what we were trying to put together.” 

On Saturday, Nugent told the Forth Worth Star-Telegram that the real reason for the revocation of the offer was that Mayor Dean is racist. “I hear from reliable sources that the mayor is a racist and was offended that my band performs mostly African-American-influenced music,” he said. 

“Everyone knows ol’ Uncle Ted is the ultimate Independence Day rockout with the ultimate all-American, soul music, rockin’ soundtrack of defiance, liberty and freedom. We shall carry on. We are the good guys. Clueless, dishonest people like the mayor are the bad guys.”

So its racism that is keeping Nugent from playing his 4th of July gig in Texas? And here I thought racism wasn't good for anything.

Nugent also dropped this bomb:  

“Those that hate me are following the Saul Alinsky playbook on how to dismantle, fundamentally transform the greatest nation and quality of life the world has ever known,” he continued. 

“Those that hate me hate America, plain and simple.” 

Wow, I had no idea I hated America. Now I feel bad. 

Cartoon perfectly sums up the current GOP strategy.

The Republicans keep hoping that if they repeat a lie often enough people will come to accept it as truth.

However somehow I think that THIS time the American people are paying attention and the BS is not impressing them one little bit.

More people in Louisiana blame President Obama for the poor response to Katrina than blame President Bush. Guess which one was actually President at the time.

Courtesy of TPM:

A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office. 

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders. 

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.

Look it's really quite simple. If you have to choose between two different Presidents to blame, one who was on the job during the disaster, and one that wasn't. You blame the black guy.  

Makes perfect sense.

In the South.

Don't you just love putting things into perspective?

And do you remember how outraged the Republicans were during THOSE unfortunate incidents?

No you don't, because it simply did not bother them one little bit.

(Source)

Just another factoid to bring up the next time some Right Wing windbag tries to blame the bad economy on President Obama.

Who's responsible for the budget deficit? Not this guy.

Courtesy of the Examiner:  

The results of an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released late yesterday demonstrate that the Bush era tax cuts, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan account for virtually the entire federal budget deficit projected through 2019. 

Projecting policy stasis into the near future, the CBPP found that the combined effect of the tax cuts, wars, and revenue shortfalls attributable to the economic downturn will account for the entire deficit through 2019, attributing nearly half of the debt to the wars and tax cuts alone. 

Recommending once again that policymakers let the tax cuts expire, "the upper-income tax cuts now and the middle-income tax cuts when the economy has recovered more fully," or pay for any of the middle income tax cuts that the Republicans propose be made permanent. 

To remain clearly non-partisan, this perspective on the cause of the mounting debt, which ties it to Bush era policy, the revenue shortfall associated with the economic downturn, and rising interest on the debt necessarily had to leave the hard analysis of the consequent political realities to those of us who are not concerned with perceptions of bias. Ignorance alone cannot explain the Republican congressional leadership's refusal to acknowledge the economic realities of their ongoing assault on low and middle income households, and newly confirmed lack of fiscal responsibility. 

Only two scenarios could explain their apparent betrayal of their obligation to serve the general good of the nation. They either truly are in service to the corporations and their wealthy benefactors, or they have boxed themselves into a policy from which they cannot retreat without loosing credibility entirely. Admission of past policy mistakes that cannot be differentiated from their current policy pursuits would necessarily amount to a confession of their unsuitability for office. But moreover, it would completely discredit the very foundation of conservative ideology.

There is really not much more to add to this except to say that this information needs to be spread as far and wide as possible, so I hope that all of you will Facebook it, and Tweet, and if you have the time, shove it up the ass of the next Republican that tries to tell you that Barack Obama is bankrupting this country.

The truth is on our side, but it does NO good if nobody ever hears it.

P.S. I don't REALLY want you to shove it up anybody's ass, as that sounds overly violent and potentially messy, but I really do want you to make sure that as many people as possible get the chance to hear the truth.  After all if WE don't care enough to do it, who will?