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LOL, the Republicans who when they had control of Congress for most of
the
past decade managed to double the national debt? Those Republicans?
That's
funny,

No, it's not funny, it's a national crisis. Your answer is that
because the Republicans lost their way yeas ago and allowed spending
to go out of control, it's now OK for the Dems to just accelerate
spending and refuse any attempt by the Republicans to
reduce spending?

You mistake my meaning, what is funny is the comparative silence on this
issue from the right while Republicans are doing the spending, followed by
howls of outrage when Democrats are in power.

Which he knew at the time, there was press coverage of it as it happened.
Boehner denied it, so either he's less than fully honest, or he's not too
bright.

Whether he knew it or didn't know it isn't the issue.

What? *You* just said he was snookered, meaning deceived, now you say it
doesn't matter if he knew it all along. If he's playing politics and
pretending to cut spending without really doing so, why would you give him a
pass on that?

The issue is
are you OK with the recent performance of the Dems when they
screamed bloody murder and refused to cut 2%, or even 1%
from the budget? Is spending out of control and does it need
to be reduced, yes or no?

Of course govt. spending has to be cut, but not on the basis of the
ideological slant of members of Congress. In other words, whether or not
some small fraction of the budget of Planned Parenthood is related to
abortion should not be the deciding factor in whether to cut that group's
funding especially when Republicans are defending tax breaks for the oil
companies. Cut funding for Planned Parenthood and PBS and the Securities
and Exchange Commission (which is supposed to police Wall St.) but leave tax
breaks for the oil companies alone--and you wonder why people question the
motives of elected Republicans?