Did nine years of lax or no regulation of financial markets not bring the economy to its knees and require trillions of dollars of government bailouts?
Did that economic crisis not create the need for nearly a trillion dollars of stimulus money?
Did the lack of Congressional discipline that decoupled government expenditures from the revenues needed to offset them have nothing to do with it?
Medicare is in the hole, to be sure. But does Congress's failure to raise enough revenue to cover expenses have nothing to do with it? Does the added cost of Medicare Part D have nothing to do with it?
How disingenuous can you be, Senator?
And which of those policies did you threaten to filibuster, Senator Lieberman " to filibuster before they were even debated? The tax cuts? The rebates? The war spending? The deficit spending? The economic deregulation? The shortfall in revenues needed to sustain Social Security and Medicare?
The answer is none of them. All of them passed with either your active support or your acquiescence.
And now you propose to address a decade or more of what can only be called Congressional misfeasance by telling American citizens who are sick and uninsured that they must be the ones to pay for decades of your fiscal irresponsibility.
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