I'm certain you think that statement is brilliant, even though it is not.
To expand for your understanding...
The headline states the GOP is in a "funk
over Bush's spending. The headline seeks to INDICT Bush, even though Congress is complicit...more so infact since they are the ones Constitutionally mandated in this area. To allude this is BUSH's spending is DISHONEST and agenda driven.
Infact BOTH have played a role, with Congress playing the greater one since this starts with them first. As I noted Bush DOES have a role, and that is where a VETO comes in. he has also pushed for some programs that take money to work, which Congress accepted and expanded on. I didn't absolve him, I INDICTED the agenda of the hack that wrote this for focusing on the lesser of the responsibles for this spending.
To take your OTHER brilliance apart, Congress can take some credit for passing the tax cuts. But YOU know and I KNOW there would be NO tax cuts if the president hadn't used his pulpit to force it down their throats. YOU know and I KNOW that spending would be occuring with or without him in large amounts. the highway bill proved that. That's why Bush gets MORE credit, in this specific instance of taxes, because no fair minded person out there honestly thinks absent Bush those tax cuts would have happened.
You know and I know that Republicans have wanted to eliminate the Dept of Ed since it was created by Jimmy Carter and never would have DOUBLED its size if Bush had not used his pulpit to force it down their throats. He did the same with Bush-Care (the prescription drug boondoggle). Republicans fought adding prescription drugs to Medicare when Clinton wanted it. Bush the Elder fought them on it. But Lyndon Baines Bush joined his left wing big government buddies in both parties and pushed for it.
Bush pushed for reversing the gains Republicans made under Clinton in the Farm bill, and welfare reform just to name two. He believes in big government and in throwing other people’s money at problems.
One cannot honestly give Bush all the credit for the tax cuts and none of the blame for the spending increases. If they are his tax cuts, they are his spending increases.
Of all his big spending Bush-Care is the worst. That alone puts him in the category with Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter.