More Revisionist History from the Right

First, every time we hear why we went to war with Iraq changes depending on the day. Now this from Media Maters and my friend the drug-addict Rush while interviewing Louisiana Senator Landrieu and the surplus left by the Clinton Administration.

ANDRIEU: Bill Clinton was running the largest deficit created by the Reagan administration before him and the Bush administration before him. President Bush was running a surplus. Yet, when he had a surplus, he didn't invest it in levees and flood protection for people from Miami to Orlando to New Orleans to Biloxi [Mississippi] or to Mobile [Alabama].

LIMBAUGH: This is sad. This is what [a previous caller] was talking about. But it's just patently sad that somebody with this limited amount of understanding and knowledge is actually in the U.S. Senate. The '90s were the greatest decade, uh, for economic activity in recent years, I thought. When was the peace dividend and all the surplus? The sur -- well, that came after, uh, the Soviet Union and the -- and the, uh, and the [Berlin] Wall fell. And the Clinton administration got rid of all those big deficits. This surplus that she's talking about, there never was a surplus. It was 10-year economic forecasts. But anybody with half a brain can tell you, folks, that two things are going to happen when a government report says there's a huge surplus in the, uh, in the out years: A) Government is going to suggest raising taxes, not cutting them; and B) They're gonna spend it. And this is precisely what happened. There never was a surplus. This is a Democrat [sic] mantra talking point about how the Bush administration squandered this giant surplus left by the Clinton administration.

So if I might ask why did everyone receive $300 after George Bush took over?? Whle I know I'm somewhat of a hippocrite cause I took it but NEVER a suruplus?? These "people" mistake you for morons. Everyone with 1/3 a brain will remember President Clinton AND (to give credit where it's due)the Republican congress and Senate turned the deficet left by the first President Bush and President Reagan into the surplus that this President Bush squandered so we have the current deficet. Now what some people were asking that Bush (and again the Republican Congress and Senate) do things like shore up Social Security with the surplus but Bush at the time decided to try to be popular and give the money back to the people. Now if he decided to even just let the money sit we would have had money to spare in the war in Iraq AND to help what's going on in the south.

I guess hindsight is 20/20.