the clinton surplus had turned into a $1.2 trillion deficit. last year nearly a third of our deficit, $420 billion to be exact, came just from the bush tax cuts, yet republicans tried to pin their own disastrous economic record on president obama action and accuse him of being a big government big spender. yes, he supported the bailouts of the bank, but saved the economy by doing so. when the president signed a stimulus to get the country out of the bush recessions, republicans attacked it as some sort of socialist nightmare. >> tim lace the gap, it stimulates the growth of government, but it doesn't stimulate jobs. >> but the reality is the bigger philosophical point is this -- i have a fundamental disagreement with this package. >> congress should grow this greasy pile of pork into the grinder. >> but many of those same