Remember this SOB?!

First listen to what this SOB had to say about him and George W Bush erasing the country's surplus that we had when these SOBs went into the White House, compared to the deficit we have now because of their selfish and arrogant managing of the country's finances.

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.) is known as a strong fiscal conservative. He was the first budget director for President Bush that managed to bring the country's budget from a surplus (that began during Clinton's term) to a budget deficit. Daniels is having to explain his role in the mismanagement of OUR country's budget that ultimately led to a collapse of the financial institution, because he is considering running for president in 2012.

Chris Wallace asked Daniels, "When you came in, this country had an annual surplus for the first time in 30 years of $236 billion. When you left, two and a half years later, the deficit was $400 billion. You were also there when President Bush launched his Medicaid drug benefit plan that now cost $60 billion a year. I know there was a recession, but do you think it was wise -- at a time when we were fighting two wars -- to have two tax cuts and launch a huge new entitlement?"
Daniels' response was, "It was a recession, two wars and a terrorist attack that led to a whole new category called homeland security," he said. "So nobody was less happy than I to see the surplus go away, but it was going away."
But it was only going away because the Republicans were looking out for the 1% of wealthy individuals in this country and not for the country as a whole.

So now Daniels is try to distance himself from the Bush administration and had this to say to Chris Wallace on his Fox New show this morning, "Chris, I was proud to be part of that administration. Yes, I think the original tax cuts were good and timely and helped the economy to recover very very quickly from that recession. But if you want to know what I think about fiscal issues, don't look at 2 1/2 years when I was in the supporting cast with no vote. Look at six years where I was in a responsible position, submitting budgets and fighting for them. There's the record that I think is most accurate."

David Leonhardt of the New York Times wrote that Daniels "badly underestimated the cost of the Irag war." The governor has said Leonhardt's comment was unfair because he was "asked to estimate only the cost of the brief occupation that military planners expected, not to estimate the length of the occupation that would be needed."

But to that Leonhardt wrote, "I think the bigger question is why, as budget director, he did not try to prevent the Bush administration from turning a big surplus into a huge deficit -- not just through the war, but through tax cuts and other policies, too," and that, "If he runs for president, that question deserves to be a big part of the vetting of Mr. Daniels by the media, his opponents and the voters."



Source: Huffington Post