Timing

So yesterday a friend dropped by and we had a heated discussion about the current administration.

Today Keith Hennessey comes up with a list of potential responses for such friends.
And good on me, I used a ton of them.

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Argument: The previous administration and previous Congresses created an expensive new drug program … without paying for any of it.

Response 1: Yes, we did. At the time, Congressional Democrats tried and failed to create an even more expensive new drug program without paying for it. (Mr. Obama was not in the Senate at the time.)
Response 2: This Medicare drug program is ongoing. If the President thinks it is too expensive, then he should propose to make it less expensive. If instead he thinks it should be paid for, then he should propose other spending cuts or tax increases to offset the future costs. Pending health care legislation would instead expand this expensive benefit and pay for the expansion, but would do nothing about paying for the ongoing base costs to which the President is objecting. The past six years of deficit spending from this benefit is beyond President Obama’s control. The future spending is not. He could do this through reconciliation with 51 votes in the Senate.

Thanks Keith!
Dealing with Unreasonable Friends? Go to www.keith hennessey.com and chew them up and spit them out.

One of my friends flailing arguments included “all government is crooked”. gnash, gnash
Today Gateway Pundit has a short video of someone who looks pretty principled to me. Senator Judd Gregg giving Peter Orszag the whatfor.

[tangent: this friend of course has BDS. I can only laugh at humanity. The biggest reason I love President Bush is because he's a principled person who did what he thought was right. That's the one thing this friend says is missing in government - yet when it was in front of him for 8 years he never saw it. ]

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