"Wow Wal1ter, You really need to do some home work.Bill Clinton didn't balance the budget. Yes, he was there when it happened."

So let's apply the "there when it happened" reasoning To George Bush. Only the greatest loss of life to foreign attack, ever, on U.S. soil and the largest economic disaster since the Great Depression.

But hey,he was only "there when it happened." Not like that matters or anything.

"the GOP's single-minded crusade to end 30 years of red ink" Where exactly, is that evident from 2001 to 2009? I sure as hell couldn't find it. It looks more like, under Bush, they spent like drunken sailors in a foreign port.