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It's the GOP-run Congress that increased the spending, not Bush.

No, I disagree. First of all, it would be nice if GWB knew how to spell.....V-E-T-O

Second, he has pushed hard for big spending programs, and praised their passage....Medicare the latest and most obscene example.

Put the blame where it belongs: liberal Republicans.

There are not enough liberal Republicans in Congress to pass all this without the assist of #1 RINO...GWB.

Yeah. I feel like that with W. sometimes too. I blame most of it on Rove's bad advice.

Still, we need to stop blaming him for failing to stop it or even for encouraging it. He can't vote for any of it and even Cheney gets only one vote in the event of a Senate tie.

Cheney's only broken one tie, I think, and I don't recall Bush vetoing anything.

But BushCo didn't vote it into law. The Congress did.

The Founders never wanted us to primarily exercise our political franchise through our president. He's a safety valve, not the main organ of self-government. We need to keep this in mind. Much easier to get mad at one man than to fix the real blame on the complex coalitions in Congress that are the real source of the problem.

Give America a congress of DeLay's and you'd find any plans to spend by Bush would get short shrift.