[marajade]

It congress' job to pass budget bills... If congress wanted less spending all they would have to do is pass bills with less spending... Your criticism of Bush is unfounded.

[Jorge]

That's right. Bush can't sign any of these treasury busting budgets unless they are first approved and submitted to him by Congress.
Reagan was also stuck with a spend happy Congress, which was really to blame for the deficits, even though Dems like to blame his tax cuts.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Dubya (not Congress) is making many of these spending proposals. Moreover, he can stop 90 percent of the initiatives by Congress dead in their tracks by vetoing them. He has refused to do this. In theory, of course, Congress *could* stop Dubya...but this hardly lets Dubya off the hook for aid, abeting, and even leading them to support them statist proposals.