{"id":10779,"date":"2011-08-05T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10779"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:31:48","slug":"dems-bashing-bush-with-bad-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10779\/dems-bashing-bush-with-bad-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Bashing Bush with Bad Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/2011\/08\/obama-partisans-ignore-facts-when-bashing-bush\" target=\"_blank\">Byron York<\/a> eviscerates the common liberal meme that former President George W. Bush was worse on spending and taxes than President Barack Obama.\u00a0 After showing that Bush\u2019s tax cuts increased federal revenues and shrank deficits while Obama has increased the national debt at twice Bush\u2019s pace, York ends with a resounding rebuke of the common \u201ceight years of Republican rule\u201d canard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>None of this is to say that George W. Bush had a good record on spending. He didn&#8217;t, and he&#8217;s fair game for criticism. But is it honest to condemn reckless spending in &#8220;eight years of Republican rule&#8221; when Democrats controlled the Senate for four of those years and the House for two? Is it honest to talk about the &#8220;cost&#8221; of the Bush tax cuts when federal revenues increased significantly while they were in effect? And is it honest to refer to Bush&#8217;s ballooning deficits when deficits actually trended down for much of his presidency &#8212; at least before Democrats won control of Congress?<\/p>\n<p>Of course Obama partisans would like to pin the president&#8217;s troubles on Bush. But they should get their facts straight first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron York eviscerates the common liberal meme that former President George W. Bush was worse on spending and taxes than President Barack Obama.\u00a0 After showing that Bush\u2019s tax cuts increased federal revenues and shrank deficits while Obama has increased the national debt at twice Bush\u2019s pace, York ends with a resounding rebuke of the common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,70,645,928,59,491,739,455,61,1619],"class_list":["post-10779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-byron-york","tag-conservative","tag-deficit","tag-george-w-bush","tag-liberal","tag-national-debt","tag-spending","tag-tax-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10783,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10779\/revisions\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}