The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Bush vs. Obama

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As an addendum to my piece on the main site, I thought it would be worthwhile to compare Bush's fiscal record to the CBO's projections of the next 10 years, should Obama's budget get passed. Remember, Obama called the Bush administration, "the most fiscally irresponsible administration in history." The first chart, which comes from the Washington Post, looks at suprluses/deficits from 2000 to 2019, while the second chart (created by yours truly) looks at the public debt from 2001-2019. This is by no means meant to absolve Bush, who deserves our contempt for his reckless fiscal policies, but to demonstrate how much worse Obama is making things.

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Alan Brooks| 3.26.09 @ 1:05PM

alrighty, but aren't you damning Bush by the faintest of praise?
Pretend it is 1993:
"It is true Bush [41] was very fiscally irresponsible these last four years; however Clinton's budget promises to be a truly catastrophic one"

Obama will be re-elected, and he can be reelected merely because he is not in the same party Bush is in.

Daphne| 3.26.09 @ 2:29PM

I don't think Obummer will be re-elected in 2012 because he truly is incompetent; but if he is, I hope we dominate congress so we can smash his idiotic, self-destructive proposals.

Alan Brooks| 3.26.09 @ 3:00PM

Daphne... Kenward??

Jeremiah| 3.26.09 @ 3:17PM

Mr Klein --

I know you and your friends cannot wait for the day when the country recognizes this economic crisis as Obama's, but even on these extreme fringes it's a little early to compare Bush's record to Obama's. The man just got there, for heaven's sake.

Daphne| 3.26.09 @ 5:29PM

Yes, Alan--I've seen the bright light of truth--and it's Conservatism. Thank God!! Forgive me for my past transgressions: I used to be a big, dumb liberal bimbo.

Rachel| 2.20.10 @ 12:12PM

Congratulations! Now you are a big, dumb conservative bimbo. Conservatives want to tell everyone how to live their lives, then castrate them if they don't. And are most often the biggest hypocrites in the room. Enjoy your journey to the dark side.