Republicans pissing and moaning about the deficit is bogus as can be. Forget the pork. The way you get out of a recession is to flood the zone with money. Tax breaks, tax rebates, low interest rates, the Fed balloons the money supply and the government spends money that create instant jobs. Any president would have done what Bush did or risk losing the next election due to "the economy, stupid". The economy better recover, that's all; meaning "it's jobs, stupid".