George Bush The Really Big Spender

The American Thinker reports:

The facts about the Bush administration spending habits are hard for conservatives to read. After all, we are the party of limited government, right? According to the Heritage report, “spending under President Bush has increased from 18.5 percent of GDP to 20.6 percent” and even though it may appear that government is spending less because of the deficit decrease, spending has increased nine percent, the largest since 1990. Since 2001, federal spending (on things like defense and homeland security and education) has jumped 45 percent.

The facts are rather stubborn.