Reagan took the deficit from 70 billion to 175 billion.
Bush 41 took it to 300 billion.
Clinton got it to zero.
Bush 43 took it from 0 to 1.2 trillion.
Obama halved it to 600 billion.
Trump got it back to a trillion.
Biden reduced it $350 billion his first year in office. And the budget office expects to see it drop by another 1 trillion, 500 billion dollars – the largest drop ever. This is despite a $1.9 Trillion pandemic relief package. The Republicans screamed about this at the time, but it is credited with funding a faster recovery than anywhere else in the world, and actually decreasing the debt further.
The drafting committee for the 2020 platform of the Republican Party initially decided that they didn’t want to (a) meet in person or for very long to do the actual work or (b) be perceived as lazy. So, using the pandemic as an excuse, they came up with the “brilliant” idea of just recycling their 2016 platform, changing nothing but the dates while claiming as a virtue that they stood for timeless ideas.
After a couple of weeks of ridicule, during which many commentators pointed out that the 2020 platform frequently lambasted “the current administration”, they decided to simply not have a platform at all. So what they are today is a Party without a Platform, Plan, Purpose, Principles, or Priorities, based solely on Personalities, Perfidy, and Power.
Will? over 1 year ago
True enough.
The Republican budget plan is guaranteed to cause people to suffer from PTSD.
braindead Premium Member over 1 year ago
C’mon, Rob.
Republicans are focused on those dozens and dozens of FBI whistleblowers who are gonna show up any day now and prove how weaponized they are.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago
Especially with QOP opposition, the president has to throw as much as he can on the wall and see what sticks, or at least can get past the Cons.
everett_r0 over 1 year ago
…Should read the party of traitors plan…
Jingles over 1 year ago
…any day now.
FrannieL Premium Member over 1 year ago
Isn’t that the truth!
Masterskrain over 1 year ago
Since when have the Heffalumps advanced as far forward in their thinking as 1918?? Most of them are still stuck in the 1820s…
mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago
Crickets in D.C. over meaningful budget discussions.
Adolf Trump over 1 year ago
Dopey comparison.
ncorgbl over 1 year ago
Liberal vs conservative, since 1774.
Diane Lee Premium Member over 1 year ago
Reagan took the deficit from 70 billion to 175 billion.
Bush 41 took it to 300 billion.
Clinton got it to zero.
Bush 43 took it from 0 to 1.2 trillion.
Obama halved it to 600 billion.
Trump got it back to a trillion.
Biden reduced it $350 billion his first year in office. And the budget office expects to see it drop by another 1 trillion, 500 billion dollars – the largest drop ever. This is despite a $1.9 Trillion pandemic relief package. The Republicans screamed about this at the time, but it is credited with funding a faster recovery than anywhere else in the world, and actually decreasing the debt further.
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
No, not hot dog finger universe!
stamps over 1 year ago
GOP budget – give us all your money then go away and don’t bother us any more.
ShadowMaster over 1 year ago
The Heffalumps’ brains are everywhere all at once.
MaryBethJavorek1 over 1 year ago
they prove it each day that they are asleep at the wheel
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Early Christians were the first woke mob.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 1 year ago
The GOPPPPPPPPP
The drafting committee for the 2020 platform of the Republican Party initially decided that they didn’t want to (a) meet in person or for very long to do the actual work or (b) be perceived as lazy. So, using the pandemic as an excuse, they came up with the “brilliant” idea of just recycling their 2016 platform, changing nothing but the dates while claiming as a virtue that they stood for timeless ideas.
After a couple of weeks of ridicule, during which many commentators pointed out that the 2020 platform frequently lambasted “the current administration”, they decided to simply not have a platform at all. So what they are today is a Party without a Platform, Plan, Purpose, Principles, or Priorities, based solely on Personalities, Perfidy, and Power.
And, if you don’t like it, P on U.
wildthing over 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure the lead character died suddenly in the end………..
jvscanlan Premium Member over 1 year ago
How dare Biden invest in America’s future . . . .
Rich Douglas over 1 year ago
Well, SOMEONE has to lead the country. Might as well be the one the majority elected.