GOP masterfully distorts facts

Isn’t it an amazing phenomenon how easy it is for Republicans to distort the truth until it matches their preconceived notion of what they’d like it to be?

The economic situation President Obama inherited was a direct result of what transpired during the previous administration. How easy it is, two years later and with a modicum of success, to forget that we were headed into a depression worse than the first one. For all his perceived faults, we have so far survived, thanks to Mr. Obama’s policies. Wonder what the Republicans would be squawking about now if we had fallen off the mountain into the great abyss?

Mr. Bush never included the cost of the two wars he started in the federal budget, to reflect the real cost of his policies. None of his fellow Republicans called him on it. As soon as Obama took the reins, he incorporated all the expenses, now the true liability of the federal debt is apparent to all! As his father, George H.W. Bush, said about Ronald Reagan, his son also practiced voodoo economics, and now the Republicans conveniently blame everything gone wrong in the nation on Obama and refuse to give him any credit.

I guess Republicans believe if they say black is white long enough and loud enough and constant enough, it will truly become white. That may make them feel better, but what does it do for the country? We have had the lowest federal tax rate in 50 years; why are there still no jobs? Mr. Clinton raised taxes on the wealthy — voila — a booming economy for eight years.

Rosemary Colbert

Schaumburg