Today's congressional republicans are mentally mixed up in their political facts which has produced the ongoing saga unfolding today with the budget showdown over extending the debt ceiling. This mental breakdown concerning the facts is an excuse for their childish games of trying to change history.
The republicans rail against budget deficits, the national debt, federal spending and big government but those issues are a mirror image of past republican administrations problems, so they become mentally mixed up and they can not bring themselves to tell the people the truth.
They have mentally blocked out the fact that no republican President has balanced the federal budget since Eisenhower in 1960, that is over 50 plus years ago. But two democratic Presidents balanced 5 federal budgets during that same time span. They have mentally blocked out the fact that had Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 balanced the federal budget like President Clinton did deficit spending would not be a problem today. Worst of all they mentally block out the fact that the national debt tripled on Reagan's watch and doubled on Bush 43 watch and there fore a problem today. The national debt was not a problem when Clinton left office, it was a very big problem when Bush 43 left office.
The republicans are mentally mixed up on run away federal spending they claim on President Obama's watch but you see, federal spending has seen its smallest increases in the last 33 plus years under the administrations of Bill Clinton and Obama. Mentally the republicans are unable to accept that.
Republicans are mentally mixed up concerning big government. Ronald Reagan presided over the very first $1 trillion budget; George W. Bush presided over the very first $2 and $3 trillion federal budget. It was the administration of George W. Bush that gave the country and its people the very first single year budget deficit that exceded $1 trillion dollars. That really blew the mentally mixed up republicans so called conservative ideology. That is why they never talk about the accomplishments of the Bush 43 administration because there are none. So mentally to the republicans, what Bush bequeathed to Obama became Obama's doing.
Mentally the republicans have to create a showdown over extending the debt ceiling by trying to rewrite the political facts. They have no accomplishments in congress, no record of policies to move the country forward so they want to see the country and its people fail under the present democratic administration. Mentally they want to be able to say the Obama administration failed. Mentally in the republican's mind they would look at failure as redemption of Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 massive deficit spending and debt for the 20 years they ran the country.
But those who are mentally honest and not afraid of facts will win the day and recognize how today's republicans in congress are really a sad, sad bunch.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
Note: Reagan, Bush 41 nor Bush 43 took office with a depression as deep as the one left to President Obama.
