It's always Bush's fault.
My aunt is a staunch liberal these days. She pulled a real life Moby. She was a life long Rebuplican until around 2008 and then boom, party change. We were discussing the government shutdown a few months ago and I said a few words. I said it's scary how far in debt we are.
She strongly agreed with me, and said that at the end of Bush's term we were 4 trillion in debt. I said yeah, absolutely, but how did we get the number up to 16 trillion. Then she said that's not true. The liberal TV we'd just been watching had just said 16 trillion. Heck, a
cursory glance at another liberal news outlet shows that the debt rose 4.8 ish trillion under Bush, and is 4.9 and counting under Obama and that was as of march 2012. That was two years ago.
What do conservatives know though. We're just a bunch of dumb, uneducated yokels.