Bullshit Attack of the Week

President Obama is being strongly (but wrongly) criticized by Republicans for his $3.55 trillion budget, which was recently passed by the United States Congress. This 2010 budget is based on the catastrophic mess (from an economic, military, health care and foreign policy standpoint) that he inherited from Mr. Bush and his administration.

Now, of course, any budget that size is staggering, even for a country as large as the United States. At the same time, it is important to remember that Mr. Bush was the first U.S. President to propose a $3 trillion budget, when his budget for 2009 totaled $3.1 trillion. However, Mr. Bush's budget did not include spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the other hand, the $3.55 trillion from President Obama's budget includes $10 billion a month for the combat operations in both countries. This whole situation is pretty ironic if you consider the subject of my posting from yesterday. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Budget, provided this comment in February 2008 after Mr. Bush proposed his record breaking budget: "[The Bush administration has] obviously played an inordinate number of games to try to make it look better."