OIC, they were down here.
"doubt a Democratic President would have held the fiscal line any harder"
You mean, aside from Clinton. Who actually did.
"I readily admit that a number of Bush's positions have been leftist"
Exactly. Just Like SDAIs loonyvision of the US, yours is no more sane and no more attainable.
"The Republican Congress also went clean overboard in spending. Increasing the size of the central government is another leftist ideal."
A does B. B is bad. But C is responsible for B, not A.
It amazes me your head doesn't explode.
As for the rest: Blah Blah Blibbity Blah. Your politics are absolutist, binary, unrealistic, accept no dissent and are thus unworkable short of an authoritarian state where dissent is met with lethal force.
Yeti