I always thought the "new tone in Washington" was a slick of saying a "bipartisan raid on the Treasury." Kind of how "comprehensive immigration reform" is a slick way of saying "amnesty."
I remember how W's early State of the Union addresses were really laundry lists of new programs and how much he was spending on them. Perhaps I should dig out one of them for the last of W's spending defenders. Even the most serious Bush-bots concede the spending issue.
Bush did hold the line on spending for red headed, left handed, dyslexic, special education, early childhood learning programs.