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Republicans Voted to Increase the Debt Ceiling Seven Times Under Bush II

June 9, 2011 at 5:48 PM 3 comments

OK.  So.  The Republicans have convinced us (with lots of help from the “liberal media”) that raising the debt ceiling will mean the end of the world, right?

All you need to know as to what a crock of shit that is is (1) they voted to raise the debt ceiling seven times under George W. Bush:

(2)  Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt, (3)  George W. Bush doubled the national debt and (4) a $3 trillion tab for Bush’s unfunded wars still remains (and it’s climbing, unfortunately).

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for assembling all this info (there’s more here) but really, do we need a gargantuan post to make the point that in reality Republicans don’t give a damn about raising the debt ceiling ah, except that is, when their guy isn’t the one doing it?

If we had a real “news” media around here, we’d all know this stuff.

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