No, my view comes from the U.S. Treasury Dept. website which is the checkbook of the United States. You ought to get the facts vs. buying what "everyone" else tells you. Check out where that surplus came from, use of SS funds. Was that the intent of SS funds?
http://fms.treas.gov/annualreport/annrpt00.pdf
"Quagmire"? Right out of the leftwing manual. Check out the Democratic quotes which led up to the war in Iraq. These are the people that had the same intelligence information as Bush. The Senate was under control of the Democrats and voted 76-23 in favor of the war, supported the war until the war turned south and even remained negative as Bush turned the tide and won the war. Obama has adopted the Bush doctrine in Iraq and the Bush Secretary of Defense.
Neither did Bush, but that isn't what the leftwing is going to tell you. Had Bush done what you and the left claimed, why wasn't he impeached? Democrats preferred to have the talking points to the facts.
You really don't know how our govt. works, do you? obama was in the Senate when the housing crisis bubble burst. He and the Democrats prevented Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac oversight rules to be even debated. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd did more damage to the financial institution along with Obama and his ties to ACORN than Bush ever could or did.
Obama Caught in a Major ACORN Lie - Big Government
My views are backed by facts, yours are backed by opinions.