Jeff Schapiro needs to loosen his Simonesque bow tie and let some blood flow to his brain. Shapiro says “McDonnell now owns Virginia’s fiscal mess” after only a month in office.
Obama’s still blaming Bush after 13 months in office. Jeff isn’t bothered by that, though. He does, however, get a sparkling glow when he talks about how Chuck Robb found time between nude massages from Miss Virginia to raise taxes in 1982, to build roads, of all things.
4 years later, another Democrat raised taxes, again for roads. But Jeff still winks at Chuck Robb and pines for the good ole days when Schapiro’s politics, if not his fashion, was still in vogue.
Democrats are in a pickle right now. They say we can’t reduce spending during a recession. Of course, they oppose reducing spending during economic booms, too. So it begs the question.
If you can’t reduce government spending when revenues are low, when the heck can you?
It’ll be interesting to see the bloated bureaucrats get off their cushions to talk to TV cameras about how the cuts are…hmm, let’s see. What are the usual words.
Draconian! As in Draco of Greece.
Actually, since ancient Greece had very progressive and high taxes, taxed the wealthy and estates enormous amounts for “public works,” it’s the Democrats who are actually the most fiscally Draconian.