Obligatory “Quit Blaming George Bush Already!” Post

[The following is provided courtesy of ProLifeNews. I'm reprinting it because I'm sick and tired of the constant whining and sophomoric soundbites. Plus, I'm in a lousy mood, I had a rough week, my boss is a schmuck, and I need a drink. -- DLA]

Democrats need to grow up and stop whining and take responsibility for themselves and the damage they caused. The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL.

So once more, a short civics lesson.

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for Fiscal Year 2008 & FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 & FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period. (Click on the chart. You know you want to.) If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is “I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20.”

[... and that's the good news. The bad news is, the majority of Americans voted for him. Can Americans be that f@#$ing stupid? Yes we can! And, in the interest of full disclosure, I never voted for George W Bush. In the 2000 and 2004 elections, I went third party. I didn't waste my vote. The rest of you did. -- DLA]