yet liberal politicians say they can’t find much to cut from the federal budget.

First, they aren’t true liberals – they just call themselves that in an attempt to divert attention from their desires to run everyone elses’ lives.

Second, to find those things to cut, they have to actually look for things to cut. To start looking for those things to cut, you have to want to cut aspects of the federal budget.

The fact that they’re always complaining about others wanting to enact budget cuts should tell you that all they want to do is expand their vote-buying schemes (food stamps, unemployment, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security).

Anyone who desires the label of “fiscal conservative” or “fiscally responsible” needs to lay at least some of the blame at the feet of George W. Bush –

• Bush resurrected the farm subsidies that were phased out under Clinton.
• Medicare Part D was signed into law by Bush.
• Bush helped create the first round of bailouts in 2008 – remember TARP?

The fact that Bush had an “R” after his name doesn’t mean that he was deserves the label of “fiscal conservative” or “fiscally responsible.”

So YES, it WAS in part Bush’s fault.

Would Kincaid have written this smear screed if Kokesh was working for the BBC or Agent Francais Presse?

On the other hand, maybe Al Jazeera or Xinhua will pay me to pick up The Weekly Sedition from Channel 27? I could use the free publicity that Kincaid et al calling me a “tratior” and such would generate.

I’ve seen this sort of thing employed against Ron Paul and Adam Kokesh before – this is the same sort of crass mudslinging that “liberal” Democrat Marty Chavez tried against Gary Johnson in the 1998 election. I remember that Johnson wiped the ballot with Chavez, 53% to 46%.

This is right up there with the “liberals” complaining about Paul Gessing being either a dupe of or on the payroll of the Koch brothers.

And this is another reason why the best chances Republicans have of getting my support is to run candidates from the Ron Paul / Gary Johnson / Adam Kokesh mold.

CyberWiz Beezer said:

True, Michael, but every single responsible economist, and even Obama himself said Bush had NO choice on TARP. The crash was coming within hours. . We were all screaming at Bush on TV on that issue, but later as cooler heads prevailed we learned there was no other way. LOTS of books have been written on the subject with the same conclusion.

Now we’re reaping the crop of crap that Bush sowed in the economy back in 2008 – Obama simply picked up where Bush left off, and ramped it up. If Bush had left things alone, as his first Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill had wanted to do when Enron went belly-up, we would be well on our way to recovery.

I cite as evidence the Depression of 1920–1921 – Imperial Washington kept its collective hands off the economy, and it was over in 18 months.

Yet the Bush / Obama Depression is what now, three years and counting? How “necessary” was this, exactly?

Medicare D I’m not really up on, except I know like most gubmint programs it’ll probably cost more than projected, be around longer than projected, and help anyone? Dunno. I’m an advocate for letting the VA buy every kind of medicine. They have been doing it a Long time, they are masters at it, and the system works smoothly. Would keep the USPO in business too.

Let’s see – the Veterans Administration was created as a Cabinet department because bureaucrats in the Defense Department were dropping the ball. So rather than replace those people with others who could get the job done, Carter created a whole ‘nother Cabinet Department. And Reagan, that great cutter of federal spending, KEPT IT AROUND instead of making the DoD paper-pushers take care of veterans’ duty-related injuries and such.

Farm subsidies…Again not my field (pun), but I know small farmers are being killed by the big ones (those evil corporate giants like ADM) and if they do get to market, foreign companies can export to here cheaper than our guys can even plant. Whaddayado? I’m against subsidies of many kinds, but do you just let mom and pop and the family-generational farm go under?? Does that make them too little to fail?

The “evil corporate giants” like ADM get loads of those federal subsidies, too. That’s a big part of what’s enabled them to run the small family farmers out of business.

Next go to http://RioGrandeFoundation.org and download their NM Piglet book. Verrrrrrrry interesting too.