GOP party of fiscal responsibility?

[The Rabbi]

Johnson left office with a surplus, something we wouldn't see again for 40 years.

Wrong.
$27B deficit in 1968. The highest since WW2 to that point.

Actually Johnson left office in 1969 and submitted the 69 budget to congress in the spring of 1968.
The 1969 surplus in nominal dollars was 3.2 billion, 20 billion adjusted for inflation.

History of Deficits and Surpluses In The United States

Red herring. He left in Jan of 1969, not enough time to have any effect on spending that year. 68 was the last full year of his term.

 

[Flopper]

Wrong.
$27B deficit in 1968. The highest since WW2 to that point.

Actually Johnson left office in 1969 and submitted the 69 budget to congress in the spring of 1968.
The 1969 surplus in nominal dollars was 3.2 billion, 20 billion adjusted for inflation.

History of Deficits and Surpluses In The United States

Red herring. He left in Jan of 1969, not enough time to have any effect on spending that year. 68 was the last full year of his term.

The 1969 budget was approved by Congress in the fall of 1968. The Nixon administration in 69 was bond by the budget created by Johnson and and the Democratic Congress in 68.

 

[The Rabbi]

Actually Johnson left office in 1969 and submitted the 69 budget to congress in the spring of 1968.
The 1969 surplus in nominal dollars was 3.2 billion, 20 billion adjusted for inflation.

History of Deficits and Surpluses In The United States

Red herring. He left in Jan of 1969, not enough time to have any effect on spending that year. 68 was the last full year of his term.

The 1969 budget was approved by Congress in the fall of 1968. The Nixon administration in 69 was bond by the budget created by Johnson and and the Democratic Congress in 68.

The Nixon Administration could control tax revenue to the treasury? Wow, had no idea. Learn somethng new every day. No wonder he was called Tricky Dick.

 

[freedombecki]

Let's face it, the GOP is led by anti-American corporatists who since 1976 can be counted on to trot out one of two types of candidate: bobble headed fools like Reagan and Junebug Bush, or craven insiders like Pap Bush, Bob Dole and most brazenly of all, the stockholder rapist Willard Romney.

Watching Willard walk tickled me. He walks from the waist down like an earnest school boy; in Will's case it pleased me to believe that is how he walked on his way to meet Mormon elders for advanced lessons in personal hygiene.

But there was nothing funny about the way Willard took to Don Regan/William Simon/George Schultz/Cap Weinberger/Wall Street connivances. What became LBOs were originally the preferred method by which children bought businesses from family and then operated them, etc. Willard and other ReagaNUTs figured out how to rape stockholders of public companies by loading public companies with debt for "consulting fees" then taking loan proceeds as "dividends" and hooking it out of town.

Any party degenerate enough to put someone like that out front is anti-American in every core value known to Americans. What is hilarious is how corporations put a bobble headed idiot out front, surrounded him with religious nuts and defense contractors, and then sold him to moderate Democrats and Republicans as America's savior. I am laughing out loud thinking about Reagan, basically a New Dealer among reactionary greedmongers, may well turn out to have been the leading edge of the pharisee class who take the US down for the count.

There is a saying, "When fascism comes to America it will arrive wrapped in the flag and bearing a cross."

Look at the filthy god damned scum claiming to be Republican leaders: Religious nuts and defense industry shills, every one of them. Now look at the human cattle who buy all that bullshit and one understands the purpose carnivals used to serve before media at the speed of light rendered fleshpot carnivals irrelevant. The new carnival is politics at the speed of light paid for on credit.

It really is laugh out loud funny.

Dugdale, you've spun a 10-foot grave with your little spin machine. Please be careful that you do not fall in it.