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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n May 18th<\/sup>, 2023<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n www.zeppscommentaries.online<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n I wonder which will happen first? Will the Republicans\u2019 extremism that sometimes slops over into outright treason and fascism cost them enough votes to neuter them, or will they destroy the country first in a mindless attempt at extortion?<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, things aren\u2019t going well for them. They lost two mayoral elections Tuesday, both in deep red areas, one under the purview of Ron DeSantis, and the other in the district to Lauren Boebert. Both had been considered locks for the GOP.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking of Bo-bo, she\u2019s getting divorced, and that\u2019s already turning into a white trash rodeo, Palin-style. Maggie Armpits is also getting divorced. Family values and all that. <\/span><\/p>\n The GOP is clinging to George Santos because they need his vote so desperately, and the Dems gleefully maneuvered them into voting against expelling the con artist. The Republicans think they can strike back by voting to expel Adam Schiff, because two actions are always the same no matter what. Just like having Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court is exactly the same as having Thurgood Marshall. <\/span><\/p>\n Speaking of the \u201call things being equal\u201d mentality, Armpits is whining that \u201cwhite nationalism\u201d is the same as the N word, because \u2018slaveholder\u2019 means exactly the same thing as \u2018enslaved.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n Trump is claiming the Durham report proves that he tried to stop Biden from committing war crimes or something. Trump\u2019s buddy Putin has his mercenaries firing on his own troops and he just fired the scientists who developed their hypersonic missiles because, like the jet planes under Hitler, it failed to change the course of the war. Stay in your bunker, Putie. Someone will be by shortly to scrape you up.<\/span><\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the Jordan \u2018hearings.\u2019 How many courts could a kangaroo court if a kangaroo could quartz courts? The clowns in the little car are the only part that makes any sense. It seems the dawg ate Gym\u2019s homework.<\/span><\/p>\n In Arizona, election and reality denier Kari Lake called her star witness, Jacqueline Onigkeit, She was supposed to establish improper verification of voter ballots. She did the exact opposite. The <\/span>Arizona Republic<\/i><\/span> bemusedly reported, \u201c<\/span>As a witness for the defense, Onigkeit was dynamite. The problem is, she was supposed to be the star witness for Lake.”<\/span><\/p>\n But of course, there is the budget blackmail that is still ongoing. Republicans are hoping Democrats will cave before they have to murder the country, and Biden doesn\u2019t look to be in a caving mood. The crazier boobs of the Republican Party are hoping that they can stay with their tried-and-true approach to governance: Fuck things up, and leave it for the Democrats to fix. This would be more of the same, piled higher and deeper. <\/span><\/p>\n Racking up bills is always more enjoyable than is paying them, and for many years, Republicans have gotten away with the lie that the Dems rack up the bills. Don\u2019t believe me? Here\u2019s something my friend Isaac in the Weasels posted this morning: It shows that over nine out of every ten dollars in the debt is from Republican policies and misadventures. It\u2019s only gotten worse since it began with Reagan. It also shows the Democrats tried to staunch the flow of Republican largess to the rich. Read it and weep:<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s a look at the budget deficit each president since Lyndon Baines Johnson inherited from his predecessor, and what the budget deficit was when he left office.<\/p>\n Lyndon Baines Johnson (D) Richard Nixon (R) Gerald Ford (R) Jimmy Carter (D) Ronald Reagan (R) George H.W Bush (R) Bill Clinton (D) George W. Bush (R) Barack Obama (D) Donald Trump (R) Joe Biden (D) So in the past 60 years, only one Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, had a larger budget deficit in his last year in office than he inherited from his predecessor. All six Republican presidents had larger deficits in their last budgets than they were handed at the start of their term.<\/p>\n In other words, Republicans love to spend taxpayer money. And yet so many gullible voters have swallowed the GOP line that it’s the Democrats who are spendthrifts, the basis for McCarthy’s current threat to refuse to pay the nation’s bills — something Republicans never did as Trump was adding $8 trillion to the national debt in just four years.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
\nAssumed office November 1963: $5 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 1969: $3 billion surplus
\nReduced the deficit by $8 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 1969: $3 billion surplus
\nLeft office August 1974: $6 billion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $9 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office August 1974: $6 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 1977: $54 billion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $48 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 1977: $54 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 1981: $79 billion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $25 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 1981: $79 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 1989: $153 billion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $74 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 1989: $153 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 1993: $255 billion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $102 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 1993: $255 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 2001: $128 billion surplus
\nReduced the deficit by $383 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 2001: $128 billion surplus
\nLeft office January 2009: $1.4 trillion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $1.5 trillion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 2009: $1.4 trillion deficit
\nLeft office January 2017: $665 billion deficit
\nReduced the deficit by $735 billion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 2017: $665 billion deficit
\nLeft office January 2020: $3.7 trillion deficit
\nIncreased the deficit by $3 trillion<\/p>\n
\nAssumed office January 2021: $3.7 trillion deficit
\nFiscal year 2022: $2.775 trillion deficit
\nFiscal year 2023: $1.376 trillion deficit
\nReduced the deficit by $2.3 trillion (so far)<\/p>\n