[sickoflibs]

It wasnt just the war spending itself but the fact that war spending, especially when it becomes unpopular, is always followed by run-ups in other non-war spending (war and welfare) as a political sweetener. Bush certainly confirmed that rule with the blank check.
On talk radio there has been lots of ‘If only Bush just spent on the military but not on.....’ but it’s not realistic politically.

Then add the housing bubble run-up mistaken as a growing economy and Greenspan’s low interest rates to fund it all along with tax cuts and you got a bad situation which Obama runs with. This is how Rome fell and how Jame’s Dale Davidson predicted we would follow.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

It wasnt just the war spending itself but the fact that war spending, especially when it becomes unpopular, is always followed by run-ups in other non-war spending (war and welfare) as a political sweetener.

True, Bush needed that quid pro quo while he was POTUS, plus there is that political pendulum that swept in Obama and Company to get even WRT spending for the wars, TARP, tax cuts.

[MNJohnnie]

Then add the housing bubble run-up

As usual you ignore the fact that both Bush and McCain tried to reform but were blocked by Barny Frank in he House and Chris Dood (both Democrats) in the Senate.

But I know, actually having to hold your idols in the Democrat party accountable for THEIR actions is far to hard for you. So much easier to spend all your time shooting your political allies in the back instead.

And then you wonder why you get your political butt kicked on issue after issue?

[MNJohnnie]

Last Bush with a GOP Congress Deficit 2006: $169 Billion

Last 0 with a Dem Congress Deficit 2010: $1.7 trillion

But as usual you cannot be bothered with the facts when they confound your emotion based dogmas.