Rove is calling the stimulus bill the biggest peacetime spending increase in history

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The link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123440382396475547.html

The money quote:

Mr. Obama will get his bill. But it won't be one focused on job creation and stimulus. The bill he signs will create a raft of new programs and be the biggest peacetime spending increase in American history, which will give us larger deficits and create pressure to raise taxes. It will also hinder the president's other goals, such as expanding government health care.

Emphasis added. Apparently, Karl has forgotten all about those little matters in Iraq and Afghanistan. Never really happened, I guess. All that death, destruction and chaos? Nope, we're in peacetime. Or, as the newly hip-hop Republican Party might put it, "We be peacin', yo!"

[muntrv]

1. So Rove, if it is peacetime, that means the war on terra is over. Therefore,

we can pull everyone out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus we can take the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan and spend it on America.

[leftstreet]

2. We can haz peacetime now?

:shrug:

[Pirate Smile]

3. He'll be on This Week on ABC tomorrow to spread as much BS as possible.

[47of74]

4. I don't care about what that fat f--k thinks

[gratuitous]

5. Just don't be surprised

When the new talking point is about the "peacetime spending increase." Be ready with your reply. I'm thinking of going with sniggering derision.

[Mind_your_head]

6. How come rove isn't in jail right now? He doesn't even bother to show up when he was subpoenaed!

I don't care one rat's ass what this law-breaking, and-I-throw-it-in-your-face, CRIMINAL has to say about ANYTHING!

[jobycom]

7. They are dying banshees, screaming loudest as they fade into the void of insignificance.

Rove's nonsense is easily debunked. If this is peacetime, then all of Bush's spending was during peacetime, and Obama's "spending increase" isn't the biggest, and if this isn't peacetime, then Obama's spending increase isn't the biggest.

He and Limbaugh and the rest of their ignorant ilk are just screeching out their last second pleas for attention, like Al Capone being led from the courtroom, still trying to deny the reality of the verdict against him by denying the validity of those who convicted him. Like Capone, they are finished--the next group of Republicans to take control will reject those losers even more vehemently than we do.

[JDPriestly]

8. So the War on Terror is over?

That's good. Did we win it or lose it and when?

[Historic NY]

9. but didn't they tell us to go out and spend...thats been the Republican solution since 911.

BUY BUY BUY.....

[HughMoran]

10. It's what's needed to fix the BIGGEST DISASTER IN HISTORY - 8 years of Republican rule

Time to take your medicine, ass face.

[spanone]

11. so?

[lonestarnot]

12. So, he's paired up with Osama Bin Laden in video taped interviews now, I mean he's on the run isn't

he?

[adamuu]

13. heh. "peacetime" n/t

[Occam Bandage]

14. So wait. It was wartime under Bush. What changed to make it peacetime now?