>>>This is the man who whines when you don’t give him enough adulation for taking the deficit from $1.1 trillion to $580 billion<<<
Never forget, the largest Budget Deficit under President Bush was less than the smallest Budget Deficit under Obama.
Remember too that that very large Bush budget was inflated by Obama. Neither House had passed a budget yet under Bush, so when democrats won, they threw everything into the budget bill - including the stimulus - and passed it. They knew it would be credited to Bush and it would establish a high artificial baseline off of which the new administration would be able to claim to have “cut” the deficit.