America: Fantasy World Version

One of the things I routinely hammer conservative bloggers and even my conservative friends for is their total lack of care for anything during the Bush years. Especially when it comes to fiscal matters, so-called conservatives were almost entirely absent during the 8 years of complete fiscal mismanagement that embodied two full terms of Republican rule. Blogs are the easiest to hit because of archives and their noticeably absent criticism of a president that took the largest surplus in history and turned it into the largest deficit in history while also doubling our national debt. I would think it would be hard to overlook such things if you considered yourself even the slightest bit conservative or fiscally concerned.

And then you come across something like this that explains how the people who cheered on George Bush sleep at night.

It's not that the very fiscally conservative Republicans objected to Bush's economics, it's that it never happened. In their world, the deficit became a concern on Jan. 20, 2009 when Barack Obama tripled it. It was then, too, that Iraq became a mess, Afghanistan became important, and unemployment turned into a national nightmare. Their Fox News teevees tell them so.

They get to pretend that it was Obama that tripled the deficit. Somehow, and this is only possible in the Republican Fantasy World, but somehow a president that inherits a $1.2 trillion deficit and then takes it to $1.4 trillion has tripled it. The fact that George Bush gave Obama a budget that was already $1.2 trillion in debt never happened. Instead, all of it is because of Barack Obama. It's so easy being Republican. All you have to do is pretend the last 8 years never happened and that anything wrong today is entirely because of the last 8 months.