Do McCain and the Republicans deserve the boot for leaving Americans 12.1 Trillion in debt?

Yes!

The national deficit was actually about 4 trillion under Clinton, but he inherited that from previous administrations. Toward the end of his term we had a budget surplus of 200 million dollars per year.

Bush increased the deficit to what will be about 12 trillion after this bailout. He tripled it!

Republicans have NOT held the majority for 6 years until 2006. The 107th senate was 50/50 at the beginning and at the end the democrats held it 51/49. the 108th senate was 51/49 with the republicans in control (not enough to break a filibuster so hardly a "full majority"). The closest they had to a "full majority" was the 109th senate, 55/46 but still not enough to break a filibuster. And as for the House Resolutions that Bush vetoed, go back and look at them, HR 1591 was vetoed because it called for a set withdrawl date from Iraq. It was later passed with out it and was signed. HR 976 was the first S-Chip that rightly was vetoed along with HR 3963, a re-hash of 976. HR 1585 which was vetoed because it called for a set date for withdrawl from Iraq, and was later re-introduced without the withdrawl date and signed. So, you see, the "efforts to correct the mess" is a lame excuse. every one of those vetoes were made to pieces of legislation that were intended to back Bush into a corner and he wouldn't go there.

No. Sorry, Sir, but the Liberal Democrats are the known borrowers here. They also scam the American taxpayers out of their money, and call it charity. It's only charity if given from free-will, Mate. Get a clue.

DEMOCRATIC PROMISE #14: No More Borrowing from Social Security

Promise: “We will not borrow the money from the Social Security trust fund and from other creditors around the world.”

– Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ), House Floor Remarks, March 28, 2007

Broken Promise: 215 Democrats, including Democratic Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ), voted “NO” on a Republican proposal to prohibit increases in authorization spending levels if the Social Security surplus has been spent the previous year.

The Democrats knew their final funds became going to return up approximately $4 hundred billion money short while they despatched it to the President. and because you don't be attentive to the U. S. shape, the President would not have line merchandise veto potential. Congress is meant to be people who administration the funds. Congrss has the capacity to rewrite the full funds. Democrats have now been on top of issues for 2 years. See any component distinctive? Democrat or Republican, Congress would not be attentive to the thank you to stability the books. deliver the attorneys packing and choose for CPAs. a minimum of they could make the books stability.

Why do Americans blame all of their problems on George Bush? I hate him for being an idiot but just because you have a hang nail or a tummy ache or one testicle doesn't mean its his fault. Did G.W. put a gun to the head of every American stupid enough to sign an adjustable rate mortgage because they lost their home? Was he responsible for creating two Catagory 5 hurricanes that happen to hit major population centers in the Gulf Coast (that sit well below sea level)? Was he responsible for Osama bin Laden attacking on September 11th? No, he was not....

Look I think he is a ******* idiot and I hate him for making fiscal conservatives like me enemies of the American populace. And I have some big issues with Sen. McCain. But John McCain is not George Bush and saying that he is like G.W. is like saying Clinton and Obama are like the colossal failure known as Jimmy Carter. Its just not true.

So if we are in such a bad financial bind in this country, does it make sense to elect a president that is going to increase taxes across the board? Here is Michigan we elected a ***** called Jennifer Granholm (twice) and her idea of helping the out-of-a-job auto workers is raise taxes.

I'd say they deserve the boot for general lack of performance. If they were employees at any corporation, they'd have been fired long ago... but yeah, kind of funny that the supposed fiscal conservatives run up such large credit card bills for the nation each time they're in office eh? Those pesky "un-needed wars" and "desire to spend half our GDP on military" (as well as huge new freedom-reducing agencies in GWB's case, another true hallmark of a conservative, right? Creating the largest fed. agency since FDR's New Deal) tend to do that

Definitely.

They can try to get us to "share responsibility" for this "long coming" fiasco, but if you notice it's really "a denial". Notice they don't offer "accountability". They are caught and they know it.

I hope the GAO, Government Accounting Office, has some good explanations when the election is over.

The Veto is Presidential Privilege. Cheney doesn't have the right of "vetoing" congresses requests for "evidence". I understand it's covered under the "I have a right to not incriminate myself" rule.

This one is a no-brainer. Yes they do deserve the boot. It will take the Democrats to dig America out of the deep hole Bush has put us into.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!

Why do all of the people seem to point only right or left on this? The answer is as easy as looking in the mirror in most cases. The spoiled. clueless "credit rich" American lemmings put us in this situation. Just like the drug problem. If you have lived responsibly and made your own way, you are getting screwed while the screwups get saved from their own stupid behaviors.

Bush can't vote, so McCain can't vote with him. Democrats aren't helping anybody. They haven't done a thing. A large part of that debt is from unfair trade agreements that were signed when Clinton was in office. It was bi-partisan.