Would you believe me if I told you I knocked out Mike Tyson fair and square?

From Lawrence Jones: 

What if I told you that I knocked out Mike Tyson when he was in his prime or that when Jordan was in his prime I crossed him up and then dunked in his face; most of you would say "maaan" get the hell out of here with that nonsense!! Still more of you would want some type of proof that I actually did the things that I say I did! And that's perfectly understandable!! So why can't we apply that same standard to Republicans when they talk about the debt, deficits and the economy! 

The two worst economic upheavals in US history happened under Republican presidents; "The Great Depression" under Hoover and the "Great Recession" under Bush! In both cases it took a Democratic president to come in and clean up the mess left behind! Ronald Reagan by the time he was finished had tripled the national debt and Bush squandered a budget surplus and doubled the national debt from 5 to 10 trillion dollars! 

The GOP has absolutely NO CREDIBILITY when it comes to the economy or fiscal responsibility! Where is the proof to the contrary!!?? In fact, there's a ton of proof not including what I've already given you to support the exact opposite position; and that is the GOP doesn't know what they're talking about!! That's why it amazes me whenever I see a repub congressman or senator on CNN or FOX news trying to lecture the president on the economy or fiscal responsibility! It's really laughable when you think about it! All of sudden teabaggers and the GOP are deficit hawks and experts on how to fix the economy! I expect that one of the conservative arguments will be that president Obama has spent so much more money than Bush and that's why they're so alarmed now! For the sake of argument let's say that's true; it's not, but let's pretend that it's factual! Guess who was the biggest spender of all time prior to Obama?? You guessed it, Bush! Bush burned through money quicker than any president before him and accumulated at the time record debt and deficits! So if being the biggest spender of all time was the tipping point, where was all that GOP outrage during the Bush years!!?? Where was the teabagger rallies!!?? Bush was the biggest spender up until Obama if we are to believe what the GOP has been telling us! And for the record President Obama has actually reduced the annual federal deficit by billions of dollars! Trust me when I say you'll never hear that on FOX News! 

The economy is slowly recovering and if we want to keep momentum and accelerate job creation; the very last thing we need to be doing is listening to the folks who have no track record (proof) whatsoever to support their claim that they're the party of fiscal responsibility and economic growth and whose policies wrecked the economy in the first place!!