OK, so this is not really a full blown diary but I think it's important to remember these talking points when dealing with conservative friends or if you call into a right wing talk show.
We should be hammering these simple talking points over and over and over. Also, some people on this website should remember these talking points before they slam Obama. They are simple and effective. You all know them but if you don't have the numbers memorized here they are. Republicans would have this shit down cold and hit us every day with this. These facts should damage the GOP for a generation. We cannot let conservatives get a pass on this stuff.
The day the Bush administration took over from President Bill Clinton in 2001, America enjoyed a $236 billion budget surplus — with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When the Bush administration left office, it handed President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit — and projected shortfalls of $8 trillion for the next decade. During eight years in office, the Bush administration passed two major tax cuts skewed to the wealthiest Americans, enacted a costly Medicare prescription-drug benefit and waged two wars, without paying for any of it.