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Vanden Heuvel Rips Rove Over Fiscal Responsibility
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Today on ABC’s This Week, Karl Rove slammed the cost of President Obama’s new budget. The Nation’s Katrina Vanden Heuvel quickly fired back at Rove’s newly-discovered sense of fiscal responsibility, observing that Rove and President Bush “helped plunge this nation into trillion dollars of debt”:
VANDEN HEUEVEL: But, Mr. Rove –
ROVE: Call me Karl.
VANDEN HEUVEL: It’s laughable for you to talk about fiscal responsibility from someone who helped plunge this nation into trillion dollars of debt, through tax cuts for the very rich and a war we never should have fought. And also starving the beast. Starving government has been a Republican role in terms of government. And, therefore, when George asks why government hasn’t functioned, people have not seen the role of government improving the conditions of their lives for decades.
Pollster Stan Greenberg also chided Rove. “It’s a remarkable lecture considering the performance,” he said.
Tagged as: economy, karl rove, katrina vanden heuvel
Satyam Khanna is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
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