"To understand the State of the Union, we must look not only at where we are and where we’re going but where we’ve been. The situation at this time last year was truly ominous. […] First, we must understand what’s happening at the moment to the economy. Our current problems are not the product of the recovery program that’s only just now getting under way, as some would have you believe; they are the inheritance of decades of tax and tax, and spend and spend. […] The only alternative being offered to this economic program is a return to the policies that gave us a trillion-dollar debt, runaway inflation, runaway interest rates and unemployment," Ronald Reagan, in his first SOTU address.
The attempt by the right to deny their own legacy is brazen even by their recent standards. That commentators should echo this double-standard is just pathetic.
In my view, Obama and the Democrats should have hammered day after day after day at the appalling legacy they were bequeathed; and the media, instead of giving these hypocrties and opportunists a platform, should have demanded at every moment that they also account for their own responsibility for the crisis we are in. That the WSJ would give Karl Rove a platform to inveigh against debt with no acknowledgment of his own role in amassing so much of it in order to bribe seniors and other favored constituencies, just reveals their own abdication of fairness in favor of rank, mindless partisanship
The Dish 