Gathering facts, if not moss
There are a number of reasons I love Rolling Stone magazine, but these snippets from a March 18 story titled: The GOP's Dirty War, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/12697/64858 are a good example:
"President Bush inherited a projected surplus of $5.6 trillion and left behind a forecasted deficit of $3 trillion."
and
"The Republicans' grotesque distortions of Obama's record have become a matter of dogma for the GOP's new grass-roots base. A recent poll found that only two percent of Tea Partiers are aware that the president enacted the largest middle-class tax cut in history. A staggering 44 percent, by contrast, believe that Obama has increased their taxes — and only 16 percent blame the current economic catastrophe on Bush, who ran up record deficits by slashing taxes for the wealthy."
Another source for the "largest tax-cut" claim: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016948.php
"President Bush inherited a projected surplus of $5.6 trillion and left behind a forecasted deficit of $3 trillion."
and
"The Republicans' grotesque distortions of Obama's record have become a matter of dogma for the GOP's new grass-roots base. A recent poll found that only two percent of Tea Partiers are aware that the president enacted the largest middle-class tax cut in history. A staggering 44 percent, by contrast, believe that Obama has increased their taxes — and only 16 percent blame the current economic catastrophe on Bush, who ran up record deficits by slashing taxes for the wealthy."
Another source for the "largest tax-cut" claim: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016948.php
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