And Republicans would love to see Joe Biden at the top of the Dem ticket in 2016. Rubio, however, charged tonight that Mr. Obama considers a free enterprise economy as "the cause of our problems." "His solution to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more," Rubio said of the president. "And the idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them."
Let's assign federal govt spending to the president's policies and leave state and local spending out of it. We see the big spender was: <IMG SRC=http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?&id=W019RCQ027SBEA&scale=Left&range=Custom&cosd=2001-01-01&coed=2009-01-31&line_color=%230000ff&link_values=false&line_style=Solid&mark_type=NONE&mw=4&lw=1&ost=-99999&oet=99999&mma=0&fml=a&fq=Quarterly&fam=avg&fgst=lin&transformation=lin&vintage_date=2013-02-13&revision_date=2013-02-13> vs <IMG SRC=http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?&id=W019RCQ027SBEA&scale=Left&range=Custom&cosd=2009-01-01&coed=2012-10-01&line_color=%230000ff&link_values=false&line_style=Solid&mark_type=NONE&mw=4&lw=1&ost=-99999&oet=99999&mma=0&fml=a&fq=Quarterly&fam=avg&fgst=lin&transformation=lin&vintage_date=2013-02-13&revision_date=2013-02-13>
Country burning to the ground under obamas watch and msnbc, a so called news channel spends all day making fun of rubio for taking a drink of water during a speech, that about sums up all you need to know about msnbc.