Facts Are Inconvenient Things . . . 0
. . . for Republicans. Steve Benen reminds us
Then the Bush/Cheney era happened. Republicans took a massive surplus and turned it into an even more massive deficit, adding the costs of two wars, two tax cuts, Medicare expansion, and a Wall Street bailout to the national charge card.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) later referred to the Bush/Cheney era as a time in which Republicans decided “it was standard practice not to pay for things.” In just eight years, GOP policymakers added $5 trillion to the debt in eight years.
As Driftglass pointed out in this weekend’s podcast, one party lives in a world of facts and of cause and effect.
The other party–well, their convention was last week.
Republican magickal fanstastickal thinking accounts for the ability of Paul Ryan to give a speech so fanciful that even the establishment press could not ignore the fabrications, even as his fellow Republicans acclaimed them as tablets from the mount.
