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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:00:03 -0400, hk wrote:

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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:57:09 -0700, CalifBill wrote:


I thought the purse strings were controlled by a Democrat Congress.
Yeah, that's the ticket.

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

Bilious Bill repeats that trash about once a month, hoping, I suppose,
to convince himself it is true. The reality is the Dems have a tiny
majority in Congress, not enough to control anything, and, of course,
deficits rose sharply in the Republican Administrations, partly because
the Republican presidents wanted to saddle future generations with debt
so high necessary social programs would have to be cut to service that debt.


Well there was a war


If you are referring to the current president's war on Iraq that was
started for partisan political reasons, yes, there was a war, and along
with it, tax breaks to help us not pay for it.

So many Republicans have told so many lies about the war, I can't keep
the characters straight anymore. Was it Bush, Cheney, or McCain who told
us our troops would be greeted with flowers, it would be a short war,
and the Iraqis would pay for it. Oh, and of course, "the surge has
worked," even though the purpose of the surge was to buy time for the
Iraqi politicans to settle their differences, split the oil revenues
evenly and work together to make their country a going concern. NONE of
that has happened yet, but...THE SURGE HAS WORKED!

Bullship upon bullship.