I just found this comment by Rex Nutting in reply to someone’s comment on his post…

rnutting 6 days ago
@louman

The 2011 Budget Control Act set the budget for both 2012 and 2013.
Congress passed that law, and Obama signed it.
I’m not sure why you think we don’t have a budget…. maybe because you’ve been listening to too much propaganda.

What do you think of Rex’s claim?

For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011

How do I know? Because the same thing happened to Bill Clinton, and he got credit for an economy that improved after Republicans took over the House.

…but as the TFGP, he probably enjoys it both ways…

hillsoftx on May 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM

But, if he enjoys it both ways, wouldn’t this make him TFBP?

Seriously, can you imagine any previous White House trying this? “Hey, forget what CBO says, but Rex Nutting says we’re not increasing spending. . . ”

Talk about jumping the shark.

…but as the TFGP, he probably enjoys it both ways…

hillsoftx on May 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM

..and I see what you did there!

If Obama did indeed not spend more than Bush, there is only one question left to ask him…
Why Mr. President, do you hate poor people?

Strike Hornet on May 25, 2012 at 4:47 PM

..nicely done! Who needs a broadaxe when a scalpel will do just as nicely?

But, then…it’s supposed to go away the next year, right? These were one-time expenses. Why didn’t Obama spend LESS than Bush? Why does spending keep going UP every year??!!

It’s as if I bought a car this year and now claim that amount needs to be added to my budget every year from here on out. But I don’t need a new car every year!!! Don’t you media people understand this??!!!

They give ALL of FY2009 spending to George W. Bush.

Obama’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Stimulus Act of 2009 that Obama claims saved the country from slipping into a depression?

Obama gets the “glory.” Bush gets the $787+ billion tab.

Obama’s continuation of the bank bailouts that he claims “loosened the frozen credit markets”?

Obama gets the “glory.” Bush gets the $350 billion tab.

Obama’s continuation of the auto bailouts of GM and Chrysler before he let them go bankrupt so that he can now claim to have saved the industry?

Obama gets the “glory.” Bush gets the $50 billion tab.

Cash4Clunkers, Cash4Caulkers, UI benefit extensions to 99 weeks”

Obama gets the “glory.” Bush gets the $10s of billions put on his tab.

You get the idea, but the real lie is that GEORGE W BUSH NEVER SIGNED A FY2009 BUDGET. NEVER. EVER. EVAH. The Democratic Congress only passed THREE of FY2009′s 12 appropriations bills: Defence, Homeland Security, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. As a result of the Democrats’ failure to complete their work — primarily because they wanted to wait until Obama was in office and they could jack up spending levels, Bush signed a continuing resolution on 30 September 2008, that kept the rest of the government running through 6 March 2009. The CR kept the government funding for the remaining nine appropriations bills at FY 2008 levels through 6 March 2009, the expiration date.

The Democrat Congress passed the rest of the remaining 9 appropriations bills in 2009…..and President Obama signed them into law on 11 March 2009.

Congressional Quarterly details the history of the FY2009 final appropriations bills. From the report, it is blatantly obvious that one must attribute most of the accelerated spending in FY2009 to President Obama in a piece titled “2009 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2009 Omnibus.”

From CQ, “the omnibus provided a total of $1.05 trillion — $410 billion of it for discretionary programs — and included many of the domestic spending increases Democrats were unable to get enacted while George W Bush was president.”

Why? Because he had threatened to veto any such appropriation bills submitted by the Democrats that dramatically increased spending over FY2008 levels.

President Bush’s proposed FY2009 budget called for spending of only $3.11 trillion, which was just a 3% increase. President Obama and his Democrat Congress ended up spending $3.52 trillion in 2009, which represented a 17.9% increase in spending — the highest single-year percentage spending increase since the Korean War.

By January 2010, spending as a percentage of GDP was 25.2% — the highest it has been in the United States since World War II.

Yes, Obama’s spending as a percentage of GDP has gone down, but only ever so slightly. During George W Bush’s 8 years as president, spending averaged 19.6% of GDP. Under President Clinton, spending as a percentage of GDP was 19.8%. In the decades following World War II, the average has been 19.7%. The average for Obama’s first term is projected to be 24.3%.

Obama is such a “budget hawk” that his OWN party has defeated his last two budgets….unanimously. Obama’s own ‘A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America’s Promise’ budget would have ‘only’ jacked up Federal spending by a stunning 18% — a rate of increase ‘nearly 3 times the average growth rate of Federal outlays over the previous 10 years,’ according to the CBO, but it is totally responsible. Don’t believe me? Ask him and all of the Obama Firsters. He is positively a piker.

…geesus!…when is the MSM going to finally start laughing out loud…and not make THEMSELVES the laughingstock of the country…with anyone who has more than two brain cells?

KOOLAID2 on May 25, 2012 at 4:50 PM

Amply evidenced by their Comments at the link to this story.