The Dish’s Andrew Sullivan (my favourite American blogger) has a contest every year for an assortment of awards – winners announced here (plus glossary of the award names here). I don’t think he’d mind further promotion of the “Chart of the Year” since it explains so much about American politics:
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And as a bonus, he adds this chart from the New York Times, nominated by Ezra Klein – also extremely enlightening given the meme to the contrary:
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I’m curious who the ‘poorest’ US Senator / Congressman is …
Bush had $2.7 trillion government revenue….he had a paltry $160 billion budget deficit before Democrats took over Congress.
Democrats and Obama have had a $1 trillion PLUS deficit every year. This chart is left winger ideology and spin. But no surprise coming from this blog.
Which spending items was Bush forced into by the Democratic congress?