Blame the Liberal Democrats

Massive budget deficits = Liberal Democrats?

Hmm, seems like I've heard that argument before, but never seen any research... Time for a little good old fact checking.
Let's see, where to get data? How about straight from the source?
The white house's historical budget information.
The Senate statistics on party control.
The House of Reps statistics on party control.

So, the congress has the "power of the purse", let's start with them. The house is more unpredictable than the relatively
conservative senate. They must me the culprits. Let's see what the debt looks like, charted against the House:


Wow, that's not really satisfying. I'm not sure exactly how that cooresponds - it looks like both parties have presided over
distinctive decreases and increases. Hmm, maybe the Senate? Let's see:


Looks pretty similar - both parties up and down. That leaves the executive - not what I expect to matter since
Congress passes the budget, but let's see:


Well, now that's interesting. At long last, a correlation. Proof, indeed that it's those damned liberal democrats in the white
house who run up the debt.

Note: This originally appeared in this topic, but I liked it so much I thought I'd put it up as a topic.

 

Hmm... It seems there was some misinterpretation of my initial post. Perhaps I should have used this as the final line:

[sarcasm]Well, now that's interesting. At long last, a correlation. Proof, indeed that it's those damned liberal democrats in the white
house who run up the debt.[/sarcasm]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 2 2007, 05:43 PM) [snapback]471929[/snapback]</div>

I don't know - maybe quit giving away our GDP in corporate subsudies and unearned no-bid contracts? Oh, and close the gap between capitol gains tax and income tax, so that they are a similar percentage?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 2 2007, 05:43 PM) [snapback]471929[/snapback]</div>

Fair - though I for one don't see what the furor is all about. It was patently obvious he had to do something. I espect a full pardon by the end of the term. You have to protect your cronies when they stick their neck out, or they stop doing it. We can't have him rolling over and implicating Darth Cheney.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ Jul 2 2007, 06:59 PM) [snapback]471979[/snapback]</div>

Funny, looks like the same pattern to me, though graphing it as a percentage also factors in economic growth, yet another thing those damn liberal democrats are opposed to.

Oh wait, let me be clear:
Funny, looks like the same pattern to me, though graphing it as a percentage also factors in economic growth, [sarcasm]yet another thing those damn liberal democrats are opposed to.[/sarcasm]