Now, the fiscal year 2007 budget, this is the last one passed by a Republican Congress and Bush, had a deficit of $161 billion. The next year, under Democrat control — this is the budget created before the recession began — the deficit was $459 billion. This is after the Pelosi Congress. In 2009 it was $1.4 trillion. The last Bush budget produced a budget deficit of $161 billion, and yet they’re out there trying to say that all of this is the Republicans’ fault. That’s what they’re setting up here.
