Bush <=> Obama

It's pretty hard to hang that spending rate on Obama as nearly a trillion of it came from the various bailouts that started to be crafted under Bush and were a response to Bush's mismanagement of the economy. We'll see what the rate winds up being in a year or two. IIRC, Clinton wound up spending a bit to get us out of the first Bush's recession, but wound up turning deficits to surpluses before his first term ended.