YaHey wrote:

Does the article point out that it was Bush, a republican, that actually signed the stimulus program? Or did somehow this tiny minor point get omitted?

Maybe this has been previously posted and discussed. If so, forgive me.

LR minions, why is this article all lies by the Liberal media. Please inform me.

http://www.forbes.com/...ve-its-barack-obama/

The comments are exquisite!

You're uninformed and misguided, again. You need to go back and figure out how much Bush's stimulus plan and 2009 budget was, because all this Obama spending is actually money that Bush on his way out screwed us with.

Bwaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaa! Seriously???? Dude, you kill me, you really do! I hope you never leave ST b/c since losing MattinSF, we haven't had such good comic relief!

"Hey...don't insult drunken Sailors (which I used to be ;-) by equating them to Barack Obama, the most prodigious spender in the history of U.S. presidents."

You're just a comical yet sad shadow of your former self. It's really funny that your opening line is almost word for word the GOP talking point that the article in the OP is meant to debunk.

Bush was very deferential to Obama, getting TARP (NOT the "stimulus" that was another 780 billion, wholly Obama's) passed, and leaving half the funds for Obama to direct. The author is giving a left-wing spin on spending; here's what actually happened, if you are truly interested:

"The analysis by Internet commentator Rex Nutting on which Obama based his claim begins by telling us “What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress.” Not exactly.
The previous administration, or President, proposes a budget. The previous Congress approves a budget. And what Congress approves can be radically different from what the President proposes.
As Art Laffer and Steve Moore showed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, President Bush began a spending spree in his term that erased most of the gains in reduced government spending as a percent of GDP achieved by the Republican Congress in the 1990s led by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, in conjunction with President Clinton. But for fiscal year 2009, President Bush in February, 2008 proposed a budget with just a 3% spending increase over the prior year. Fiscal year 2009 ran from October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009. President Obama’s term began on January 20, 2009.
Recall, however, that in 2008 Congress was controlled by Democrat majorities, with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and the restless Senator Obama already running for President, just four years removed from his glorious career as a state Senator in the Illinois legislature. As Hans Bader reported on May 26 for the Washington Examiner, the budget approved and implemented by Pelosi, Obama and the rest of the Congressional Democrat majorities provided for a 17.9 percent increase in spending for fiscal 2009!
Actually, President Obama and the Democrats were even more deeply involved in the fiscal 2009 spending explosion than that. As Bader also reports, “The Democrat Congress [in 2008], confident Obama was going to win in 2008, passed only three of fiscal 2009’s 12 appropriations bills (Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security). The Democrat Congress passed the rest of them [in 2009], and [President] Obama signed them.” So Obama played a very direct role in the runaway fiscal 2009 spending explosion."

http://www.forbes.com/...er-in-world-history/

You're uninformed and misguided, again. You need to go back and figure out how much Bush's stimulus plan and 2009 budget was, because all this Obama spending is actually money that Bush on his way out screwed us with.

Ha, ha, ha

And I laughed when you posted this the first, too! You are quite the funny guy, YaHey.

Isn't it amazing when we share facts, we are called uniformed...This quote takes what I was saying in two sentences. To the left, the ends justify the means, so whatever lying they need to do is what they need to do.

Actually, President Obama and the Democrats were even more deeply involved in the fiscal 2009 spending explosion than that. As Bader also reports, “The Democrat Congress [in 2008], confident Obama was going to win in 2008, passed only three of fiscal 2009’s 12 appropriations bills (Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security). The Democrat Congress passed the rest of them [in 2009], and [President] Obama signed them.” So Obama played a very direct role in the runaway fiscal 2009 spending explosion."

"And Obama IS the most profligate spender among presidents in history, lad. That's not my opinion, that's a fact."

You are a weakass GOP shill, who will say anything and defend any position in order to stir the shitpot of political dumbassery.

That's not my opinion, that's a fact.