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Yea, we're fed up with this shit so let's take it all out on the guy who has been in there for 12 months, take our country back, and...elect Republicans so that the EXACT SAME GUYS WHO WERE RUNNING CONGRESS AND THE SENATE UNDER BUSH can be passing laws again.
Yeah, if Repubs take Congress literally the same two guys who presided over the Republican Congress of the 2000s will be back in power (McConnell & Boehner). AKA the Congress that spent more and wasted more money than any Congress in history.
"President Bush has presided over the largest overall increase in inflation-adjusted federal spending since Lyndon B. Johnson. Even after excluding spending on defense and homeland security, Bush is still the biggest-spending president in 30 years. His 2006 budget doesn’t cut enough spending to change his place in history, either.
Total government spending grew by 33 percent during Bush’s first term. The federal budget as a share of the economy grew from 18.5 percent of GDP on Clinton’s last day in office to 20.3 percent by the end of Bush’s first term.
The Republican Congress has enthusiastically assisted the budget bloat. Inflation-adjusted spending on the combined budgets of the 101 largest programs they vowed to eliminate in 1995 has grown by 27 percent.
The GOP was once effective at controlling nondefense spending. The final nondefense budgets under Clinton were a combined $57 billion smaller than what he proposed from 1996 to 2001. Under Bush, Congress passed budgets that spent a total of $91 billion more than the president requested for domestic programs. Bush signed every one of those bills during his first term. Even if Congress passes Bush’s new budget exactly as proposed, not a single cabinet-level agency will be smaller than when Bush assumed office."
That's from an article by the Cato Institute from 2005, when Republicans controlled the WH, House and Senate.
- can't trust the cato inst. biased.johndiggity
- Yeah it is a think tank for fiscal conservatives... So not liberally biased.DrBombay