I hope no one accuses me of being a Bushbot for pointing out two facts inconvenient to GOP congress-critters:
1. Congress is responsible for setting the budget, not the President.
2. The tax cuts -- pushed by the President over the linguini-spined fears of many GOP congress-critters -- have resulted in *much* larger tax revenues being collected in 2005 than before the cuts, adjusted for inflation.
Given that Congress has more money to spend than they would have with a Gore administration and that the GOP Congress is responsible for what spending over our real needs in defense that we have spent, my suggestion is that if they are seeking someone to blame that they stop looking at Bush and start looking in a mirror.
Total federal receipts in constant FY2000 dollars
2001 1946.1 2002 1777.8 2003 1667.0 2004 1712.5 2005 1898.3 2006 1951.1 (projected)