Bush's budget was lean this year, it was the democrats and rino's that blocked his medicare and social service cuts.
Bush gets blamed for everything when he has very little control to do anything.
There is no line item veto in the president's power anymore.
He submits a lean budget but the dems block the spending cuts and then Bush gets blamed.
You can try and shift blame all you want, but so far, George W. Bush has not vetoed a single bill, as far as I know. Those sociopathic fat b@st@rds in Congress have every reason to send him fat, pork-laden spending bills because they deduce, that in the end, Bush will sign them. And time after time, they're right.