Neo-Hooverism

Apparently, John Carter is stupid enough to support the alternative budgets proposed by the GOP:

Carter says “there were two excellent alternatives to the Obama Budget, one by the House Republicans and another by the Republican Study Committee. Both balanced the budget, reduced the federal deficit, and provided tax cuts for job growth – all three elements missing from the Obama plan.”

But of course, the budget put forward by the House Republicans originally had no numbers. Then it was followed up by Rep. Paul Ryan's proposal, which contained ridiculous graphs that made claims about future spending that had no basis in reality.

Yet Carter thinks, apparently, that Ryan's budget was "excellent."

As for the RSC alternative, it basically amounted to more tax cuts and a spending freeze. We already saw how that worked out, back when Herbert Hoover tried it in 1929-1932 -- such policies plunged us deeper into the Great Depression. Repeating Hooverism seems a little stupid, doesn't it?

But more importantly, the RSC budget called for huge, drastic cuts in popular government programs. Here's how one commentator puts it:

"a vote for the RSC budget puts a congressman on the record for cutting more than a trillion dollars from Medicare over the next ten years, cutting more than a trillion dollars from Medicaid over the next ten years, cutting all other non-Defense programs to less than half their size in ten years, and offering massive tax cuts to rich people."

Yet again, our own John Carter claims that this budget was "excellent." In fact, he voted for it. (I wonder: how do voters in Williamson County feel about this?)

Luckily, Obama's budget passed -- but it did so without any GOP votes. That's right: Carter voted against it. He claimed that passing Obama's budget means "we've strapped an unbearable yoke on our children and grandchildren." But all the talk about how Obama's budget will hurt our grandkids has already been debunked.

Carter has once again demonstrated that he isn't fit for office. He's advocating neo-Hooverism and claiming that numberless, make-believe budgets are "excellent."

It will be a perfect sort of justice, after the economy has begun to recover under Obama's policies -- proving Rep. Carter and the rest of the GOP wrong -- when we vote John Carter out of office in 2010.