Obama says the last year of Bush saw a 1.3 trillion deficit. Not true. THERE WAS NO APPROVED '08 -'09 BUSH BUDGET -- EVER. Believe it !!

Obama talking about the last Bush budget. Turns out there was no Bush budget. That's right. A budget was never approved. That 1.3 trillion dollar deficit? It was voted in piece by piece by Obama (as Senator) and the Democrat controlled Congress. That look of disgust? Obama was just told that Midknight Review had the goods on that last budget.

Take a quick read from the Washington Post, early last year. As you read, understand that the Obama budget never made it through conference and was piece-mealed into existence via a series of allocation votes.

Congressional Democrats overwhelmingly embraced President Obama's ambitious and expensive agenda for the nation yesterday, endorsing a $3.5 trillion spending plan that sets the stage for the president to pursue his most far-reaching priorities.

Voting along party lines, the House and Senate approved budget blueprints that would trim Obama's spending proposals for the fiscal year that begins in October and curtail his plans to cut taxes. The blueprints, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama's presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming.

The measures now move to a conference committee where negotiators must resolve differences between the two chambers, a prelude to the more difficult choices that will be required to implement Obama's initiatives. While Democrats back the president's vision for transforming huge sectors of the economy, they remain fiercely divided over the details.

As we noted above, Obama's budget never made it through conference committee. Neither did the last year of Bush - you know, the one Obama has credited with a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit. In fact, that never happened . . . . . a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit-causing Bush budget buster piece of legislation . . . that was never approved by the Congress. What does that mean? Well, it means that the Democrat controlled Bush Congress, voted in the 1.3 trillion dollar deficit piece by piece and Obama voted in favor of it all. As it turns our, Bush had very little to do with that deficit except for the fact that he could have issued a veto -- jds

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