[real_change]

Nothing George Bush did while in office was binding on Obama and the Democratic Congress when Obama took office. The actions on the previous Congress are not binding on any future Congress. You do realize which party controlled the House of Representatives beginning in 2007 - and which party controlled the House in the first two years of Obama's presidency as well - don't you? Obama was elected to take action to improve the economy and to put people back to work - not to whine ad nauseum that he "inherited a mess."

Your attempts to blame Bush for the spending of Democrats in Congress and Obama after he retired is ridiculous. Nothing prevented Obama and the Democrats from slashing federal spending quickly after taking office. Nothing made Obama push through Obamacare, which is, as much as any other factor, discouraging businesses from hiring permanent employees. Bush deserves blame for the state of the economy when he turned over the keys to the White House. After that, the economy became Obama's and his actions have made matters worse.

I defend bush from time to time, only because of misinformation. However, Bush was a RINO on fiscal policy and budgetary issues.

-NCLB
-Medicare drug plan
-increases in spending across the board
-immigration reform/amnesty
-tarp
-allowing funding for existing embryonic stem cell research