Broder on Bush’s “greatest moral failing”

The Washington Post’s David Broder writes this morning on “The Call That Bush Didn’t Make“, a typically liberal whine that Bush failed in the war against terror. But Broder reaches for the far edge of the Bush Derangement Syndrome envelope;

Iraq and Afghanistan are the main fronts in the fourth major war of my lifetime, following World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and the first in which nothing was asked of the civilian population — no higher taxes, nothing to disrupt the comfort of daily life.

Yes, you read that correctly. We could’ve won the war against terror by now if only President Bush had raised our taxes. Let’s just set aside the fact that Korea and Vietnam were also wars that had little impact on the American homefront, and let’s look at the utter absurdity of the claim Broder makes.

The comfort of my daily life has been disrupted by the media’s inability to accept even that terrorists can be called terrorists. The comfort of my daily life is disrupted by the fact that the Washington Post and the New York Times habitually leak classified information that puts me and my family in danger. But most of all, the comfort of my daily life is disrupted by dyed-in-the-wool liberal “journalists” who think that the only way the comfort of my daily life can be disrupted to an acceptable level is by raising my taxes.

Broder continues;

[T]he president who asked nothing of the country continued to squander the budget surpluses he inherited while pressing larger and larger tax cuts on the wealthiest of his constituents and supporters. Tax cuts became the sovereign remedy for everything in the Bush years, even, or especially, when it became clear that the budgets had turned to deficits and we were borrowing abroad to finance these revenue giveaways.

Geez, how long are these goofballs going to carry on about the “budget surpluses”? They were year-over-year surpluses, not some fat pile of money sitting in the Treasury building that Bush raided daily for pizza money. And it looks like Obama thinks that tax cuts are a “sovereign remedy”, too. They weren’t “revenue giveaways”, they were allowing people to keep the money they EARNED, you doofus.

The upside-down logic of borrowing in order to cut taxes pervaded the rest of our public and private economic decision making, feeding the speculative booms that fueled unsustainable “bubbles” in financial and housing markets.

Now the inevitable crash has come, and the nation is facing a deficit of more than $1.2 trillion — an unimaginable sum — in the current year.

See that? It wasn’t helping people to buy houses they couldn’t afford that caused the “housing bubble” to burst, it was George Bush’s determination that people should keep their money. Letting us keep our money fed “the speculative boom” meaning that we’re too irresponsible when we’re allowed to keep our own money. No where does Broder advocate cutting government spending in his illogical screed – only making Americans pay for the inefficiency and waste of government regulation financed by more and more of our earnings.

David Broder should turn off his IBM Selectric typewriter and retire to some park where he can yell his dated and insane rantings at passing ducks. George Bush never made the ducks suffer discomfort over the war against terror either.

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