“The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tell you the truth.”

[tpsbmam]

Quote from Dan Bartlett, Shrub's communications director.

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Former Bush White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett hardily stands up to the task. In an interview with the Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz this week, Dan admitted that the entire motivation behind the Bush tax increases was a cynical ploy to set a political “trap” for the next president.

“The fact that we were able to lay the trap does feel pretty good, to tell you the truth.” Bartlett told Kurtz.


Bartlett feels pretty good. Isn’t that terrific? Here we are, dealing with the worst economy in decades, the worst deficits in history, crippling debt to competitors like China — all brought to America under President Bush’s brand of leadership and economic wisdom, and Bartlett feels pretty good about it. Heck, he’s bragging about it!

Hey it’s all politics right? Let’s start two wars and not pay for them, let’s drive millions of Americans out of their jobs, let’s ignore intelligence warnings about terrorist attacks while we clear brush, let’s lie to the world about WMDs so we can go to war and nation-build in Iraq and Afghanistan and send our troops over there to die, and let’s cut taxes and — most importantly — skyrocket spending so our country’s fiscal house collapses under the weight of all this long after we’ve moved out of the White House so that we can win some elections in 2010. Brilliant!

More at The Hill.

:grr:

[spanone]

1. of course it was a trap and the dems will be in the same trap in 2012

until these tax breaks are made permanent they will be used to kick the democrats in the ass.....

[JDPriestly]

7. You can't lower the deficit, fight to wars and pay low taxes.

Can't be done. It's time for Americans to grow up.

[SharonAnn]

9. I saw the trap when they were enacted and knew they'd be a factor when Obama was elected.

So how did the Dems fumble such a known thing?

It wasn't a secret. And we should have known that the GOP and their minions would pay for an enormous "spin machine" to try to mislead everyone.

[democrank]

2. Don`t fret. It`s all part of the hope and change thing.

They set traps, we cave.

[BridgeTheGap]

3. If their mission is to destroy the federal government, they're doing a pretty good job. n.t

[myrna minx]

4. It's sensible and pragmatic to keep falling for these traps.

:puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. And modern day democrats fell for it on schedule

there is this syndrome that applies here, I am sure others in the old DU have even heard of it... Stockholm I believe is the name of it...

They are that damn predictable at this point.

[The_Counsel]

6. Whatever.

...'cause the Bush Administration was 100% certain--back in 2001--that the next POTUS will be a Democrat. :sarcasm:

Why don't I believe this crap?

And why I am I not surprised in the least that I don't believe it?

[savalez]

8. +1