Republicans still pushing failed Bush policies

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Republicans are sick of Democrats blaming all the nation's problems on George W. Bush.


President Obama has been running the country for years.


"Tea party" activists have been complaining that Bush's failures could be blamed on the fact that he was not sufficiently conservative.


That would be fine, if Republicans also repudiated Bush's policies.


They haven't.


Not only do Mitt Romney's ideas appear to gibe with Bush's on almost every particular, the Republican Party platform reads as if it could have been written by the Bush administration.



http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-bush-republicans-20120914,0,1593687.story
 
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It doesn't take an economist to figure out that waging two wars while doing nothing to raise revenue to pay for them -- while, in fact, cutting taxes -- will increase the federal deficit.


It should surprise no one, then, that the deficit rose by $4 trillion under Bush.


That's not as much as the $5 trillion more it has risen under Obama, but that is in large part because:



  • the Bush tax cuts have remained in place
  • and in larger part because of depressed federal revenue caused by the economic downturn (which began under Bush's watch, as a result of a laissez-faire attitude toward regulating the financial industry) and increased stimulus spending aimed at preventing a second Depression.



Meanwhile, if reducing taxes on the wealthy really spurs them to create jobs -- an article of faith among Republicans -- one wonders why they have failed so spectacularly to do so.





http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-bush-republicans-20120914,0,1593687.story
 
The Republican Party's continuing allegiance to Bush policies doesn't end there.


The party platform calls for a host of things Bush tried but failed to achieve, such as:



  • an end to the estate tax
  • a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants
  • a cap on damages in medical malpractice suits
  • resumption of presidential "fast track" authority to negotiate trade pacts
  • a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage



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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-bush-republicans-20120914,0,1593687.story
 
callinectes said:
Democrats still pushing failed policies of Lenin and Marx.
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You don't have to go that far back, the Democrats are still pushing failed policies of Obama. The stimulus, which didn't start actually spending any money until after the recession officially ended, has produced a net negative jobs around 500,000... That's pretty fail. Now they want to double down on it.
 
When Congressman Paul Ryan has been asked the past few years about the value of stimulus to the sagging economy and the nation's jobless, the Wisconsin Republican has dismissed it as meaningless, and dubbed it "sugar-high economics."


But that's when President Obama is pushing for the spending.


When it was President George W. Bush arguing for more stimulus to boost a slow economy in the early 2000s, Ryan's economic analysis was entirely different. "What we're trying to accomplish today with the passage of this third stimulus package is to create jobs and help the unemployed," Ryan said...



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/paul-ryan-bush-stimulus_n_1803761.html




 
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