POLITICS - The Usual GOP Propaganda, The Last 8yrs Was Not Our Fault

"GOP to the People: Forget We Were In Charge for 8 Years" Espuelas Spurs Debate (includes video)

In an ongoing propaganda campaign, the Republican leadership has decided to bet on a country-wide failure of memory to revive the party's fortunes.

Hearing the speeches in Congress, and as they fan out with their talking points across the cable news shows, GOP operatives are determined to convince people the the economic crisis is the result of Obama's supposedly failed policies.

While sane people will remember that the massive intervention into the country's financial system was authorized by President George W. Bush in order to stave off what his Secretary of Treasury and former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, predicted would be a global financial meltdown - under their management (or more precisely, their lack of insight into the looming economic disaster).

The fact that the economy imploded under the GOP's watch is now being swept under the rug as if it never happened.

The doubling of the national debt under the Republicans is literally the elephant in the room - big, fat and representing the result of "Big Government Conservatism", whatever that is, which led to massive budget deficits even as the Republican Congress cut income taxes for the wealthy.

Remember the budget surplus Bill Clinton left the country? It was funneled to the wealthiest Americans as a massive tax cut which got us what, exactly?

And if Enron repulsed the nation, someone should look at the Republicans' management of the national budget. For the first time in the nation's history, a war (in this case 2 wars) was not included in the budget and payed for.

The national credit card was taken out and used over and over again even as the official national budget figures excluded these "extraordinary" expenses - showing a fictitious narrowing of the budget gap.

And let's not mention the unfunded Medicare prescription benefit which George W. Bush and Karl Rove used in an attempt to win favor with seniors - and the fiscal disaster for our country's finances it represents.

On the positive side, the GOP leadership's ability to create a completely fictitious history of events shows that not only Hollywood produces great actors.