[John O]

Wait a second, while I never had a problem with 'pre-Obama spending levels', back in '08 the story was that Bush was spending like a drunken sailor/apologies to drunken sailors.

Everyone changing their mind or something?

Bush was spending like a drunken sailor. But we have to start somewhere.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. We've been incrementalized into this mess and we'll have to incrementalize ourselves back out.

[expat_panama]

Good intentions plus bushspendslikedrunkensailor talk got O elected --it's like back then everyone complained about 6% unemployment and now we got 10%.   Eventually we have to face the fact that don't want to say bad things about what we got without first looking at the alternative.

Right now we've got an alternative with a rep-congress, and I'm hoping that posters remember how much they liked Pelosi before they stab the rep-congress in the back.