[Hoot Gibson]

As I have already pointed out in an earlier post for half of his watch he had to deal with a democratically controlled House and Senate. Further, ALL of the spending legislation came out of the democratically held House of Representatives and was sent for debate and ammendments for ratification up to the Senate which was controlled by the dems for 4 of his 8 years in office. He chose not to fight the spiralling debt which, arguably he should have. At any rate the House controlls spending, that is until now when Harry Reid has tried to assume that role for hmself and the democratic majority in the US Senate.


The national debt as of Jan 20, 2009, (inauguation day) -
10,626,877,048,913.08 but, even if you cheat and use the number you did, 2 trillion is still 20% not 9.

It is amazing to see liberals try to paint Obama as a deficit hawk. Obama is adding to the national debt at a rate of more than $1.5 trillion per year. It should be pretty easy for even liberals (armed with a simple calculator - no need to confuse them with trig functions) to multiply that number by 8 and determine that no president in history even begins to compare to Obama when it comes to spending money that the federal government does not have. He is lucky that Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives to give him a scapegoat when the far left cries that he is not spending enough.