There, there Mal dear.  I won't muddle your synapses with any more convaluted articles from unnamed sources.  Just remember always...it's Bushs fault.  Barney Frank had nothing to do with it.  The Democrats were without fault.  It's not true that Obama has been so inept that he makes Jimmy Carter look like a genius.  Continue to ignore reality dear.....it's what we do best.  Like young Mike Genske back in Aledo.  He knew that rake was down there on the ground, pointy things up.  Stepped right on it anyway.  Poor Mike has a crease down the middle of his face to this day.  I heard that since Bush was president at the time the rake was made, the Genskes blame him to this day. 

BDI

You've summed it up quite nicely.   And you're right about the right's overuse of the word "lie".   Especially those who use it here.

'What turned these into deficits, even before the recession. There were three fundamental new costs'

A tax cut is not a "cost".  Costs are spending.  If the butt heads in D.C. don't have the money, they have to borrow to continue spending.  The tax cut is not a "cost" the same way that a reduction in your pay would not be a "cost".  By the way, that's what they did that put us in the hole.  In stead of cutting costs (spending) they borrowed the money and wrote the i.o.u. forging our and our children's signatures.  If I experience a "deficit" in my finances, the first thing I do is cut my spending to compensate!

And if the tax cuts are the largest contributor to the deficit, why does the obumbler want to extend the large majority of those tax cuts?       

That's a lie!

But I would rather be accused of over-using the word; than to actually do it like mallcontent, BDumb, and davieboy have been proven to. Mallcontent even is on record apologizing to me for one.