C'mon now Hank... a feller as smart as you surely knows that NOTHING gets spent by Congress without the president's signature on it... right?

We had a GOP-controlled Congress and a Republican president for 6 of the last 7 1/2 years too.

Are you tryin' to say that all of our budgetary woes fall at the feet of a Congress with a ONE vote majority in the Senate and maybe 30 in the House and who's only had that makeup for the last year and a half?

The reason Congress' approval rating is SO dismal is because they've FAILED to reign-in the Bush administration.