Actually, that’s not completely true. Republican politicians are prone to lying in both good times and bad. We’ve certainly been hearing some doozies uttered by the “party of family values” in these final weeks leading up to the November elections. Take, for example, what the biggest liar of all said today…

Bush campaigns on pocketbook issues

By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer

SARASOTA, Fla. - Look around the dinner table and add $500 to your tax bill for each child,
President Bush said Tuesday as he sought to convince voters that Democrats would destroy the economy and the family budget if they took over Congress.

“When you go to the voting booth in two weeks, the lever you pull will determine the taxes you pay for years to come,” Bush said on a fundraising swing through Florida aimed at adding nearly $1.4 million to GOP coffers. “You will feel the results every April 15.”
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“If you’re sitting around a dinner table and there’s two children, your taxes just went up $1,000 if they take control,” the president said, continuing to do the math for three children, or four.

But he didn’t get it quite right. Bush skimmed past the fact that the child tax credit is not yet $1,000 and doesn’t reach that level until 2010.

He also ignored that many Democrats now say they want to retain that tax cut. In 2001, when it originally passed by a 282-144 vote, most Democrats voted against it because they said it was part of an overall Bush-backed tax package that provided meager tax relief in the early years, was far more costly than GOP estimates and was tilted toward wealthy taxpayers.

“The question is: Why hasn’t the president and his rubber’stamp Republican Congress joined Democrats’ efforts to expand the child tax credit?” said Jennifer Crider, spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., referring to Democrats’ wishes to make low-income families eligible for the credit.

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Anyone reading this post, I ask you to ask yourself, what is the federal deficit today as compared to what it was when Bush first bamboozled his way into the White House?