Broder Gets Paid to Live in a Make-Believe World

So-called conservative columnist David Broder gets paid to pretend the last 8 years never happened:

The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest results.

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The answer: Less than one-fifth of the voters -- 19 percent of the sample -- think he will keep his word. Nine of 10 Republicans and eight of 10 independents said that whatever passes will add to the torrent of red ink. By a margin of four to three, even Democrats agreed this is likely.

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This is obviously turning out to be the case. While the CBO said that both the House-passed bill and the one Reid has drafted meet Obama's test by being budget-neutral, every expert I have talked to says that the public has it right. These bills, as they stand, are budget-busters.

Spare us the drama, Republicans.

All of a sudden, out of thin air, Republicans once again care about polls and about the budget. It's nothing short of amazing really. Of course this is not surprising to me since over three years ago I predicted Republican amnesia would set in.

Not one single time in Bush's entire 2nd term did he ever have a majority approval rating. That only meant to Republicans he was a true leader. But now, according to David Broder, it means the "public has it right." If we had applied such Broder logic then, Bush should have resigned. Too bad that didn't happen and too bad Republicans said just the opposite about polling 10 months ago.

In terms of budgetary matters, there had never been a presidency so fiscally irresponsible in American history. The man David Broder voted for twice, increased the budget deficit by roughly 1,000%. Never once did Broder write a column so concerned about increasing the budget deficit. Never did he even consider equating unpopularity with budget madness, but now that Bush is gone Republicans all over the country get to pretend-- just like Broder is-- that they are fiscally conservative and care about what the public thinks. And the MSM, just like the Bush enablers they have always been, lets them do it.