[raybbr]

According to estimates in a September research report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank where almost everyone can be expected to vote Republican, federal spending has risen 45 percent during Bush's presidency, three times as fast as it did under Bill Clinton.

Is she wrong about this?

[Miss Marple]

Probably, but there was this little matter of the war on terror. It costs money to go to war and look for terrorists.