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February 19, 2008
NOW Stantis Is Worried About The Deficit
Yes!!! Scott Stantis, fiscal conservative! He TOTALLY nails it today, and it's so hysterically funny too! That silly Winslow thinks that "stimulus" will solve all of the nation's problems, and it's up to Conservative Carmen to remind him that "stimulus" leads to deficits. You go, Stantis! Way to speak truth to power!
It's too bad Prickly City wasn't around in 2001, when this strip would have been bold and daring. I'm POSITIVE that Scott Stantis would have run this EXACT same strip in spring of 2001 when Bush announced that he was going to do the same thing. Stantis would have boldly stood against his fellow Bush Republicans and reminded them all that throwing money at the problem isn't a solution, and it'll just get us deeper into debt. Stantis is known for that sort of daring initiative, right?
On a less sarcastic note, I truly do love how the hypocrites in the Republican party like Stantis come out in droves now that the Democrats are in charge of the Congress (well, sorta - that's a whole nother post). Stantis and the rest of them LOOOOOOVED them some tax cuts and tax rebates back when the Republicans were in charge - they couldn't get enough of them. But now that the Dems are the ones that have to sign off on the legislation, we have to remember that horrible deficit (that was run up under a government completely controlled by the Republicans, but don't mention that part).
It reminds me of John McCain this past Sunday morning. He was talking about how we can save the economy by getting rid of "pork barrel spending." This from the guy whose party gave us the multi-million dollar bridge to nowhere, and preferred to send money for homeland security to little carnivals in Indiana instead of to protect places like New York City. The Republicans rewrote the book on how to waste taxpayer dollars, and now they're the ones screaming about how we have to be fiscally conservative? Please.
Odds are Stantis thinks he's earning some "street cred" when he does a strip like this - oooo, he's going against Bush! What a rebel! The reality is he just reminds us that not only is he a huge hypocrite like the rest of the Republicans in charge, but they're the ones that got us into the mess we're in now in the first place.
By the way, have you noticed how the media and the Republicans refuse to say that the Democrats in Congress are providing a tax break or a tax rebate to the public with this package, and instead always refer to it as "stimulus" like Stantis does today? Guess that's cuz the Dems only raise taxes, they NEVER EVER cut taxes EVER. Isn't that right, Stantis? Must be nice living in that fantasy world of yours. Too bad the media lives there too.
Comments
What the hell does Stantis have against trying fix the economy anyway?
Notice how Stantis conveniently overlooks the facts that a) the deficit was largely the result of the Bush administration ignoring all of the fiscal restraint that the Republicans supposedly stand for* and b) the stimulus plan was a bipartisan effort.
*Apparently Republicans only preach fiscal restraint when they aren't in power.
Posted by: Chris at February 19, 2008 03:46 PM
That headline's totally misleading. I was expecting something about the National Organization for Women.
Posted by: Sacki at February 19, 2008 04:00 PM
