Actually the whole "facts are useless statement" applies to both extremes of the Liberal vs Conservative mentality. Obama didn't start the wars in Iraq or Afgahnistan (and when the Iraq war was first pitched I recall Conservatives saying that the war would pay for itself with all the sweet sweet oil we would find). Obama wasn't in office when Bush pased his deficit shattering tax cuts. Obama also wasn't responcible for the unfunded Medicare prescription plan that Bush pushed through with bipartisan support. All of those items add up and over the years and have balooned to the point we now find ourselves.

If Obama had taken office and on day one got to determine what he would fund and what the tax rate would be then your statement would be true. But in the adult world when you are elected president and take over a government you are saddled with the legacy costs and income levels from your predicessor.

Most of the spending levels for the budget in Obama's first year was a carry over from Bush's presidency. It was true for Bush when he took over from Clinton, and it will be true for whomever replaces Obama in 4 years.

Obama also had no controll over the state of the economy he inherited and as a result the lower tax receipts also played a major roll in the deficit we now face. I also do not think GW was solely responsible for the state of the economy when he left office, but his policys didn't help it either.

I tend to lean left of what is considered the center in my views but I'am at heart a independent. I don't think Obama has been agressive enough in rolling back many of the policys of GW. I also don't like many of his stances on civil liberties.

But when I hear idiots like yourself on either side of the spectrum spouting off misleading statements and professing a hatred or at the very least disdane for the people, ideas and policys of the other side it tends to turn me off and makes it hard to take you and your kind seriously.