Excellant article "Lying about Taxes"

[jainen]

>>Congress last week passed a $464 billion spending bill.... Congress was at a standstill<<

Nice try at spinning the news, redux. That was a FUNDING bill, not a budget. It was only based on continuing resolutions that kept the government working according to the previous year priorities. And that happens to be what the article you quote says, so I trust you don't disagree.

Now tell me why the Republicans, claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility, should be at a standstill when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. Why exactly did they ignore their Constitutional obligation to pass a budget?

[joanmcq]

This is a very strange thread, trying to argue that because the Democrats haven't yet reversed the tax increases that the Republicans scheduled for 2010, somehow that proves it's the Democrats who want higher taxes! And their first budget isn't even due until next October! (The Iraq money and other emergency measures were necessary because the Republicans didn't even bother making ANY budget for this year, not even funding the troops.)

This is exactly what the republican spin would like you to forget...it was their accounting sleight of hand that put the expiration dates on the cuts to begin with....so the amount of debt they are foisting on the next generation doesn't seem as horrendous.

Lying about taxes, lying about WMD, lying about the environment...what haven't the Bushies lied about?