About a month after blaming George W. Bush for Pennsylvania’s budget woes, The Delaware County Daily Times in suburban Philadelphia decided to go whole hog and fault the entire nation’s economic misery on the previous president.
“When George W. Bush completed his second term of office in 2009, he left the country with a one-year deficit of more than $1 trillion and projected deficits of more than $8 trillion,” the DT said which was what they also said a month ago.
The DT, however, decided it was not worth mentioning that it was the Democrats that controlled the legislature for the final two years of Dubya — civics tip of the day: spending bills start in the House.
Nor did it feel obliged to point out that Duby’s last proposed budget initially called for a $408 billion deficit.
Nor did it think it necessary to say that the deficit was increased by $300 billion by TARP bailout spending strongly supported by certain senator from Illinois with whom the DT still seems enamored which would put them behind even Obama Girl , when it comes to shaking off the chains of co-dependency.
Nor did it see fit to note that $113 billion of that last deficit could be laid solely at the feet of Obama.
Nor did it bother to report that Obama has accelerated the spending so much that the first budget the can be entirely credit to him calls for a $1.7 billion deficit.
I suspect that the staff of the DT fully accepts Al Gore’s claim that he invented the internet. Still as it sinks into the pit and the tar finally closes over its gasping nostrils, the final thought of that Journal Register product will be “Bush’s fault”.