Toro
Diamond Member
you're right in general about bush, but you forget to mention that most of his open ending spending was done with a republican majority. most conversatives are now admitting that bush was not a conservative.
And the fact is that most conservatives are pissed now. How come they weren't pissed when they controlled the House for six years and the Senate for four? It's as if they believe Bush suddenly became spend-happy in 2007!
It would be one thing if they were consistently criticizing Bush throughout his incompetent fiscal tenure. But they don't have a great deal of credibility now and are difficult to take seriously.
And for the record, given the tremendous problems in the economy, one trillion dollar budget deficit does not bother me, maybe even two. But if the first Obama term is marked by trillion dollar deficits every year, that is a serious problem. The government MUST get the spending under control in the not-too-distant future. If they don't, the Democrats will be just as incompetent on fiscal matters as the Republicans have been for the past 30 years.