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Oh, right. He's a democrat, and democrats are NEVER responsible for budget problems. It's the guy before them that caused all the problems.
Dragon, I think your characterization of Democrats applies far better to Republicans. For example, did Clinton sit around blaming the deficit on Reagan, who managed in 8 years to get the country in 3 times the debt it had accumulated over the past 200 years (which included two World Wars, a Civil War, and the very expensive destruction of Indochina)? Did Clinton sit around whining about Bush I, who ran deficits almost double those of Reagan? No, he rolled up his sleeves and got down to turning the historic debt into a surplus. Surely, revenues were declining because of economic conditions when Clinton left, but revenue was still ahead of spending.
Enter Bush II, who cuts taxes at a time of declining revenue. Gee, guess what we're running now? If you said "surplus," we have a seat reserved for you on the short bus. And guess who the new Right blames it on (along with everything else, including getting caught flatfooted by the 9/11 attacks)? That's right, Bill Clinton.
Takes you back, doesn't it? Remember in 1980, when candidate Reagan told President Carter, "Mr. Carter, if you can't balance a budget, step aside, I CAN!"
As a matter of fact, Carter is the only postwar Democratic President since Truman who saw budget deficits increase during his term of office. Every Republican, on the other hand, presided over increasing deficits. But who did Reagan blame the deficit on? Democrats, of course!
After the public spectacle of the Reagan-Bush fiscal orgy, you'd think not even Republicans could have the naked dishonesty and cowardice to blame the deficit on the Democrats. But you'd be wrong. High-profile right-wing charlatans like Sean Hannity are still blaming Congressional Democrats for Reagan-Bush deficits, even though the budgets Congress approved were on average within about half a percent of what those Presidents requested. Hannity and company do this via an advanced rhetorical technique called "lying." They publish best-selling books that contain tables with made-up numbers and bullshit math.
How do they get away with this, when a half-bright high school student could look up the real numbers and call "fraud?" Because the right-wing audience will believe anything, no matter how outlandish, as long as it confirms what they already think. The people who buy Hannity's books do not look things up.
But don't worry. In a year, or maybe five, a Democrat will go into the White House and set about sweeping up four to eight years of fiscal elephant poop. And guess who Republicans will blame.