The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL

[Dennis Rhea]

DO NOT RAISE TAXES, THE CLOWN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS ALREADY GETTING OVER 160.00 MORE A MONTH FROM ME BY LETTING THE MAKING WORK PAY TAX CREDIT EXPIRED DECEMBER 31, 2010, WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THIS IF IT WAS NOT A TAX INCREASE THAT TOOK MONEY AWAY FROM MY FAMILY WHILE THE STATE DEPARTMENT SPEND OVER 770 MILLION FIXING MOSQUES AND OBAMA WANTING TO GIVE AMNESTY TO 30 MILLION LAW BREAKERS (ILLEGALS). THE HOUSE PASSED AN OUTSTANDING BILL BUT THE SENATOR LAP DOGS OF OBAMA VOTED IT DOWN SO OBAMA CAN CONTINUE THIS SPENDING WAYS UNTIL HE SPENDS US INTO BANKRUPHY. THIS TAX DOES TAKE INTO THE ACCOUNT OF ALL THE OTHER TAXES ON OUR PHONES, LIGHT BILLS ETC, CONGRESS IS TAXING US TO DEATH AND NOW THE CLOWN WANTS MORE OF OUR MONEY AND THIS IS FROM SOMEONE THAT NEVER WORKED A HONEST DAY IN HIS LIVE.

GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER OR BE REPLACE BY TEA PARTY MEMBERS IN THE NEXT ELECTION.
The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL.
So once more, a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 & FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 & FY 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.