"Bush administration and passed a budget during Obama's first few months."
Who came up with the content? Was it based on the Bush administration's proposals, or the new Obama administration's proposals? The Obama administration was hardly even staffed out for months.
Congress basically ran the spending from 2006 on. Bush didn't threaten a veto, let alone do one. (The last deficit from a repub congress was $100b/year. The current deficit is over 10x as big.)
Considering how little that Obama has deviated since then, it's unclear why you think that the budget passed in early 2008 isn't what he wanted.
Please. Bush didn't threaten vetos of profligate Republican spending either. He doubled the national debt from about $5 trillion to $10 trillion, and it didn't all happen in the two years after 2006.
Really, you need to grapple with this reality. Two wars paid for off-budget, a medicare drug benefit that they made no attempt to pay for and thus went straight to the deficit, and tax cuts.
> Please. Bush didn't threaten vetos of profligate Republican spending either.
I didn't intend to suggest that he did.
> He doubled the national debt from about $5 trillion to $10 trillion, and it didn't all happen in the two years after 2006.
You're right - it didn't. The deficit went up, to a peak of around $600B, after 9/11 and the prescription drug monstrosity, but had dropped to $100B when repubs lost congress. That six years, plus the 2 years of a Dem congress, added $5T to the debt.
Obama is on schedule to add $5T in four years....
Yes "profligate Republican spending" was horrible. My point is that Dems have been worse.
Who came up with the content? Was it based on the Bush administration's proposals, or the new Obama administration's proposals? The Obama administration was hardly even staffed out for months.