Tom Toles for January 13, 2016
Transcript:
Republican: Obama hasn't reduced the deficit. Obama hasn't reduced the deficit enough. Obama still hasn't reduced it enough. Okay, Obama has reduced the deficit a lot. But not enough. He hasn't eliminated it altogether. And he better hurry. because we're ready to get back in and blow it up again.
So let’s go back to the tax rates of Saint Ronnie, we’d have great infrastructure, roads and bridges that weren’t falling apart, an affordable education system, a space program that lifts the imagination, clean water and the debt would be paid off. Or do we follow the dictums of unelected Saint Grover, who professes he won’t be satisfied until the government is “small enough to be drowned in a bathtub?” Wonder what that world will look like…