David Limbaugh responds to a New York Times headline that reads “Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit”

“Faced with anxiety in financial markets about the huge federal deficit and the potential for it to become an electoral liability for Democrats, the White House and Congressional leaders are weighing options for narrowing the gap, including a bipartisan commission that could force tax increases and spending cuts.”

Those elections have a stubborn habit of forcing even drunken sailor politicians to pretend to care about other people’s money they otherwise have an unlimited appetite for squandering.

But wait; I thought concern about runaway federal spending was the concern only of those “tea party” protestors the administration has dubbed “potential domestic terrorists” who were carrying “political paraphernalia” — copies of the U.S. Constitution — and engaging in “right-wing extremist chatter” focused “on the economy.”

No, we’re supposed to believe the Democrats care about deficits again, the ones Obama is planning on expanding to between $9 trillion and $13 trillion over the next decade.

We’ve seen this pattern of deception before. Democrats railed against President George W. Bush’s deficits as if they would have curbed federal spending if they had been in power. (We happen to know the rest of that story, don’t we?) When Bush fulfilled ahead of time his 2004 campaign promise of cutting the deficit in half in five years, Democrats mocked his achievement as a temporary blip.

Brother, Rush, who had previously proposed a bipartisan stimulus, said the following on his radio show, July 12th:

Now, the fiscal year 2007 budget, this is the last one passed by a Republican Congress and Bush, had a deficit of $161 billion.  The next year, under Democrat control — this is the budget created before the recession began — the deficit was $459 billion.  This is after the Pelosi Congress.  In 2009 it was $1.4 trillion.  The last Bush budget produced a budget deficit of $161 billion, and yet they’re out there trying to say that all of this is the Republicans’ fault.  That’s what they’re setting up here.

But the real kicker is not the raw numbers, but the visual. The chart says it all, my friends…