Andrew Lawrence: Fox Ignores Economic History To Praise President Bush’s "Fiscal Discipline"

Fox News ignored economic history to forward the absurd claim that former President George W. Bush exercised "fiscal discipline." On the April 25 edition of Fox & Friends , former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andy Card claimed that President Bush "probably has the best track record of any modern president in terms of fiscal discipline," a statement that went unchallenged by the Fox & Friends co-hosts: But facts undermine Card's claim. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the drivers of current and future public debt are policies from the Bush presidency: A recent study from Harvard researcher Linda J