BLAME BUSH

Obama and all the other Democrat politicians and the liberal media are still in the “blame Bush mode”.  They’re still babbling about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush.  Amazingly enough,..... a lot of people swallow this nonsense.   For those of you who have, here is a short civics lesson.

The President does not control spending, CONGRESS DOES.

Except in Obama’s case.  He ignores the constitution and does anything he damn well pleases and so far he is getting away with it.

The party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.  They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011.  In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

 
For FY 2009 though, Pelosi & Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Obama could take office.  At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets..

And where was Obama during this time?  He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.  Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period:

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th, 2009.

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