No Child Left Behind, Medicare expansion, Bush's rapid increase of subsidy programs etc... came before 2007 when the dem congress was sworn in (Don't forget the Republican leadership's "insistence" on turning the votes of fellow members during the bailout voting). Republican leadership is comprised of big government spenders who happen to like tax cuts. Both major political juggernauts love to play with other people's resources, keep rewarding the big spenders I guess, what ever floats your boat...
Meantime; I am focused; not on 'what was'; but on 'what is'; and how America's future depends, now; on removing/extracting the worst of poisonous blight; ever; to attach itself to America's Oval office.