Those of us who don't live in the Republican Fantasy World, will actually remember the Bush administration inherited the largest surpluses ever and turned them into the largest deficits ever, and when you actually look at budget numbers over the last decade (as if we need more proof), you'll see it's even worse than we thought.
David Leonhardt did just that with an analysis printed in Tuesday's Times. From that we see Obama's contribution to the current deficit is but a smidgen of the actual numbers. His greatest contribution to the deficit isn't from his health care plans but from his continuation of Bush era policies, like the war in Iraq. Luckily for us Matt Ygelsias has put together a nice pie chart illustrating the areas most responsible for the current deficit.
Anyone who is not completely engulfed in the Republican Fantasy World would not need such a report to state the obvious, THIS IS BUSH'S FAULT. But Republicans will continue to deny the last 8 years, pretend everything was splendid and that any fiscal irresponsibility today comes directly from the Democrats and Obama. Amazingly, now that they are out of power, Republicans have returned to being fiscal conservatives again. They won't read the Times' report. Heck they'll call it "gotcha media" and blame it all on liberals and terrorists and run and hide from reality by coozying up to Fox News where Karl Rove gets to unabashedly claim George Bush and the Republicans bare no responsbility for anything that is happening to the country today.
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