i think they feel like things were just kept from the brink and god god help us, they hope it gets better. you know what, that is not the president s fault. what is the president s fault, though, is, he s the one that brought up the steakhouse analogy, forget that. so let s just talk straight. let s just talk straight. george bush left him with a trillion dollar deficit. he has answered that, by increasing the deficit for four years in a row, the biggest deficits ever, the fastest rate of growth ever, the biggest entitlement spending ever, the biggest defense spending ever, the biggest discretionary domestic spending ever, in every single category, mike barnicle, there is not a close second. if this guy is going on the campaign trail and trying to make george w. bush as a big spender i wrote two books attacking george bush as a big spender. this guy makes george bush look like calvin coolidge. mike, can i add? he left obama with a trillion