Your lack of basic economic literacy is eclipsed by the fact that every statement you’ve made about war and taxes was obviously taken from some blog on DailyKos.

It is a FACT that every year since the Bush tax cuts took effect, US Treasury revenues have increased by an annual rate of over 15%!! Trickle down economics work. There are no two ways about it. Because you’re too intellectually lazy to acknowledge this doesn’t mean it’s not true. You’d have had more credibility if you had criticized Bush for signing nearly every spending bill that crossed his desk, most laden with democrat pork.

Check how many public buildings in WV are named for that former Klan Kleagle Robert Byrd, now one of your party’s leaders. Those naming rights came from taxpayer dollars, most likely from other states.

1. No president, Republican or Democrat, has ever lowered taxes in a time of war. Bush was the first. He encouraged us to continue shopping, driving up the unsecured debt that has gotten this nation into so much trouble.

2. Afghanistan yes, Iraq no. The total estimated cost of both wars, including veterans benefits and lost productivity, is now $2 trillion – $3 trillion. About the same amount being estimated to bailout an economy managed by the Bush Administration for 8 years. Since we took our eyes off Afghanistan, which the WSJ today reported features a Taliban that has spread throughout the country and nearly encompassed Kabul, the wars will be even MORE expensive than they would have been if we’d stayed focused. It’s unbelievable and disturbing that you would try to excuse this series catastrophic mistakes so flippantly and claim any president would have done the same thing.

We won’t even get into how Bush was president during the first foreign terrorist attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor. If Gore had been president he would have been impeached.

3. The deficit will likely be $1 trillion – $1.5 trillion next year. By your logic, that portends a lending economic boom (even though the debt markets are frozen). Also, nice citation of unproven Republican theories of Voodoo Economics (even after 40 years of trying).

Hoover indeed.

I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how come this “ranch” doesn’t have any cattle. Doesn’t that make it a farm? Or, you know, a luxury vacation home?

Bike trails, you say? How butch.

Hoover, my foot.