for. but this is the battle front we ll deal with. who is to blame? there was going to be a prescription drug plan in 2000, whoever won. truech the recession, the big spending that went on xue to stimulus package, recession explains a lot of the deficit we re going through now. i don t know if you want to blame president bush for that but it took place before he was man. stimulus was not an act of god. it was an act of man. the recession drove tax revenues down in this country and caused so-called out mattic stabilizers like inemployment benefit to go up. it did not require near $1 trillion stimulus sprinkled on the economy a left not a trace. bret: response? might as well keep going.