President Bush offers an interesting criticism of Senator Kerry: Kerry is guilty of promising to spend more than he can pay for:
During this campaign he’s proposed $2.2 trillion of new spending. Now, that is a trillion with a “T.” That’s a lot even for a senator from Massachusetts. (Laughter.)
So they said, how are you going to pay for it? And he said, oh, we’re just going to tax the rich. Now, you’ve heard that before. Be wary when you hear, oh, we’re just going to tax the rich. My opponent has promised $2.2 trillion, but when you run up the top two brackets, you only raise between $600 billion and $800 billion. There is a gap between that which he promised and that which he can deliver. And guess who usually fills that gap.
AUDIENCE: We do!
Honestly, isn’t President Bush the last person who should be calling someone else out on a gap between what they promise and what they can pay for?
I don’t know what disgusts me more, Bush’s transparent hypocrisy, or the fact that his “base” seem to be such mindless automatons that they eat his shit up without even thinking about it.
Well, Rush proved that Republicans are mindless automatons a decade ago, so that should be less of a shock…
Thus the most disgusting thing this time around is Bush’s blatant hypocrisy.