Memos to the madmen in DC

Wow. Just getting over the Obama win hangover, and it's been forever since I posted. So a few quick memos for the new year:

Memo to the GOP: Don't freakin' lecture me. After six years in which GW and the GOP Congress turned a surplus into a sinking swamp, with your president handing a trillion-dollar deficit to Obama, you have no credibility when you say anything about deficits, spending or debt. Nothing new here, either; Reagan turned a $50 billion deficit under Carter into a $200 billion-plus gap. The first Bush raised the ante to $400 billion.

Plus, y'all seem to always leave a bank or S&L collapse when you leave the White House. This time, it was your president, his Treasury chief and his Fed chief who demanded a $700 billion bailout, no questions asked, and no one gets hurt. Now you want us to believe the kooky conservative few who voted against it are the real voice of a fiscally stingy GOP.

Really, if any of you are really worried about deficits and balanced budgets, you should be glad we're in charge.

Memo to historic revisionists: FDR rocked. Based on a couple of widely dismissed academic studies that did things like not count working on roads, bridges and great buildings as working, the righties on Fox and elsewhere keep saying that the New Deal didn't help ease the Great Depression.

In fact, of course, unemployment fell every year but one -- the one in which FDR listened to clueless conservatives and backed off.

But let the academics debate that. FDR got elected four times. Americans sure thought things were getting better under him.

Memo to journalists: Get real. So some web site got a couple of porn kings to say they'd like a government bailout, and everyone has to pick it up? Giving the right wing fodder to tout it as 'Obama bailing out porn." Hell, I'd like a bailout. Want to interview me?

Nonsense. This is the biggest government mess is years, money is going all over the place without any accountability, and you want to focus on guys who won't see a dime?