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Old 07-17-2019, 08:24 PM  
crockett
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Rush Limbaugh just admitted Republicans have totally abandoned a core party principle

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/polit...ump/index.html


CALLER: In 2019, there's gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn't really care about that. He's not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used.

LIMBAUGH: Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it's been around.

Uh, what? "All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it's been around????" Did anyone mention that to the Republican Party of the last 30 or so years? Or to the Rush Limbaugh of even a few years ago, who bashed then-President Barack Obama repeatedly for the uptick in the debt and deficit?

What's changed? Nothing, other than the occupant of the White House -- and his clear disregard for deficit spending as an issue. Trump's much-lauded -- by him -- tax cut law of 2017 is set to add $1.85 trillion to the national debt over an 11-year period, according to projections from the Congressional Budget Office. The national debt has already grown to $22 trillion -- up more than $2 trillion since Trump came into office.
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