THE GOOD OLD DAYS
When he was running for President in 2008, Barack Obama frequently used the phrase “the last eight years.” Now that he’s president and it’s two years later, he often uses the phrase “the last decade.” The standard Democrat story is that our current troubles are simply the result of some bad trend set into motion the very second George W. Bush stole the 2000 election — that we’ve had a full decade of horror and decline.
Our JournoList friends can prove with Queeg-like geometric logic that current deficits, for example, are mostly Bush’s fault and that Obama, or any other Democrat, is virtually blameless. Here is one their favorite charts.
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