Mitch Daniels, Architect of US Debt Crisis

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Mitch-Daniels-Architect-o-by-Robert-Parry-110514-825.html

Exclusive: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is the new Republican darling of the Washington establishment, which hails him as a "fiscal conservative" who would be "serious" about addressing the nation's staggering debt problem. But his many admirers forget to mention what Daniels did in creating the debt crisis as George W. Bush's budget director, notes Robert Parry.

To hear Official Washington tell it, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is the new "serious" Republican presidential contender. He's praised as a "fiscal conservative" who isn't obsessed with the Right's divisive social agenda nor marred by the crazy "birther" conspiracy theories.

Mentioned only in passing is a key fact that -- in a saner world -- would disqualify him from holding any government office: Mitch Daniels was President George W. Bush's original budget director in 2001.

In other words, the "fiscal conservative" Daniels oversaw the federal budget as it was making its precipitous dive from a $236 billion surplus -- then on a trajectory to eliminate the entire federal debt in a decade -- to a $400 billion deficit by the time he left in June 2003.

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One clown after another, after another, after another...

Daniels seems to get a pass. He was the guy with the pencil and paper. He drew the map.

Obama and the Democrats screwed up the Economy and the Deficit.

They who control the Narrative win.

For some reason, that crap just doesn't stick to them. Maybe it's because Portman's opponent (Lee Fisher) ran such a pathetic, underfunded campaign, but when you're Bush's budget director, and you're running on a platform which consists of pretty much nothing more than, "I've got a plan to fix the economy" (a plan he never actually revealed, by the way), and you win by the huge margin Portman did, it makes me think that tying him to Bush and the worst economic plan ever STILL might not be enough to sink him.