The Bucknuts Hot Spot

Liberals think everything that is wrong with the country is W's fault. Anything that is right belongs to the great one. They both have contributed to what is wrong. The question is who has a plan to get things right. Liberals say more spending and higher taxes. Conservatives say the opposite.The voters will decide and probably pick both and we end up stalemated.

Keep in mind the president only has veto power over the budget. He can present a budget to congress and make specific requests, but it's congress that controls the spending. So who controlled congress during Reagan's years, Repubs had a slight majority in the senate and Dems controlled the house. During Clinton's years where the budget was balanced both house and senate were controlled by the house.

But with an economy and tax receipts largely inflated by the illusory dot-com stock market bubble

His tax cuts added 100 billion per year to the deficit. Some people say they pay for themselves but that clearly isn't true. 2 years after they were enacted tax revenues as a % of GDP dropped from 20.6% to 16.2%. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2010/11/19/Why-Republicans-Arent-Serious-About-the-Deficit.aspx#page2 Medicare Prescription Part D also adds 62 billion per year to the deficit. The unnecessary wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost about 150 billion per year. The CIA and special forces could have easily taken out Al-qaeda without starting pointless wars. So he added somewhere around 300 billion per year in debt. Basically he has a record that neither party is proud of. It amazes me that conservatives let him get away with not paying for any of his projects. Where was the Tea Party when we needed them?

the democrats Blame Bush for the big deficit, but then they DON"T blame Obama for adding to the deficit......I'll do a SPOCK-----JIM, that isn't logical.........

Didn't most of the Dems in the Senate vote for the war? Typical liberal amnesia syndrome.

According to the CBO the day Obama walked into office there was a 1.1 trillion dollar deficit because the economy had fallen off of a cliff. When the economy crashes tax revenue crashes along with it. What exactly was Obama supposed to do? Do you want him to cut 1 trillion from the budget in the middle of a horrible recession. In a perfect world we would have had a low debt level before the financial crisis hit. In that scenario we could have run big deficits for years to stimulate the economy and the deficits wouldn't have mattered much. Obama wanted to do a $450 billion comprehensive deal to cut the deficit but the Repubs wouldn't compromise on taxes so instead we got $200 billion in cuts. Obama was handed the keys to a sinking ship which he stupidly took. If I was him I would have said screw it, McCain you deal with this mess.

Selective Dem amnesia

I sense that the White House burns to the ground in the Battle of Georgetown during the summer of 2019 and the fall of the American Experiment shortly thereafter...

... or it could just be the whiskey talking.

Only upping taxes on 1%. Don't make it seem like everyone's taxes are going up

Your excuses ring hollow.