I thought the $100 billion deficit claim for 2006 sounded way low.
There are no universally accepted historical standards for comparing presidential deficits, but I'll guess that Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush are right up there with Franklin Roosevelt before WW2 started.
And I'll guess that Lyndon Johnson ranks number one in terms of non-military spending increases.
The increases in 2008 and 2009 dwarf anything Johnson could have imagined in his wildest socialist dreams. But Johnson will have the last laugh, because it is his programs that will make up the biggest part of the debt growth in the future.