How dishonest is this cartoon?

[King]

About as dishonest as saying Reagan had to deal with a Democratic Congress.  Yeah, the House was Democrat.

But since when does a barely majority Democratic House have complete and total override on the government? That would imply that Ronald Reagan and Howard Baker were complete and total lightweight losers.

I don't think Bush 41 would've acted much differently with a Republican Congress.  He was on the way to balancing the budget, but he wanted it to happen gradually nonetheless.

Still doesn't explain Dubya, Hastert, and Frist's mess.

[King]

Yes, I'm sure John McCain would've made the drastic cuts to the Department of Defense and wouldn't have spent on money on anything.

All of Obama's spending right now has nothing to do with politics.  If Obama's politics came into this at all, we wouldn't have a deficit right now because he would've replaced Medicare/Medicaid with national public health, returned to earlier progressive tax rate levels, and completely dismantled the military.  

Unfortunately, we live in a world where you can't rename a street without being called a Nazi.

Nobody, I mean nobody.  Not Bushie Jr. or Obama or McCain thinks bankrupting us through deficits is a ing awesome idea.  We live in a society that supports the "compromise of fail" i.e. the Republicans are allowed to cut taxes but everyone calls their Congressman if spending gets cut and the Democrats are allowed to spend, but if paying for it is at all an option, then you'll see protests in the streets.

You're still young and deluded enough Libertas to somehow think this is all the master plan of the President.  But in reality, Paul Randall himself can become President and the moment he tries to scrape a dime off our budget there will be 100 million people crying foul because it's a dime that will matter to them.  And just enough filibustering Senators and whiny Representatives to get nothing done.

Because it no longer takes a daily delay of newspaper to inform some high school graduate moron citizen about what his government is going to do, no difficult decisions can be made by the smart yet pussy leaders because they got beat up in high school by said moron voters and are still afraid of their wrath.

[King]

Bush and Obama and McCain think deficits are great. It's what allows them to spend recklessly on wasteful schemes at the expense of the American people.

No having a big surplus would allow them to spend recklessly at the expense of the American people.

Why would they love to spend without taxing anything?  If they really had their way, a tax-and-spend liberal would you know... tax.

[King]

Bush and Obama and McCain think deficits are great. It's what allows them to spend recklessly on wasteful schemes at the expense of the American people.

No having a big surplus would allow them to spend recklessly at the expense of the American people.

Why would they love to spend without taxing anything?  If they really had their way, a tax-and-spend liberal would you know... tax.

They do tax. It's via the hidden tax of inflation.

And why would a leader that wants to keep his job and power love inflation?