Once Again, A Democratic President Cuts a Republican Deficit. Almost No One Notices.

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109. In this thread, Obama's starting in 10/2009.

He's not starting from the day he took office. Every cent from that fiscal year is Bush II's, even if he wasn't in office but for 4 months of that fiscal year.

There's the two tranches of TARP, both authorized and spent by Bush II. There was Bush II's bail out of GM and his most excellent way of "saving" Chrysler by offshoring its ownership to Fiat.

There's the spending bill that Bush II kept spending to veto, saying it reflected the Democrats' and not his own budget priorities--until he signed it a month after Obama's inauguration.

And there's the Bush II stimulus, with all the shovel-ready projects and green initiatives that was passed the month after Bush II left office.

What? Obama authorized and spent the second half of TARP, as Pelosi personally confirmed? It was Obama that presided over the GM bail out?

Obama signed the omnibus spending bill in February or March 2009, saying it was old business and they had to move on to more pressing matters?

It's was Obama's stimulus that spent nearly $900 billion to save the economy?

Say it ain't so. Because the OP says it ain't so. All that spending was authorized by Bush II, apparently.

And we fret over 1999 as a comparison year?