George Bush is biggest spender since LBJ.

George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In fact, he's arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.

“He’s a big government guy,” said Stephen Slivinski, the director of budget studies at Cato Institute, a libertarian research group.

Discretionary spending went up in Bush's first term by 48.5 percent, not adjusted for inflation, more than twice as much as Bill Clinton did (21.6 percent) in two full terms, Slivinski reports.

Including costs for fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, defense spending under Bush has gone up 86 percent since 2001, according to Chris Hellman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

Current annual defense spending — not counting war costs — is 25 percent above the height of the Reagan-era buildup, Hellman said.

Homeland security spending also has soared, to about $31 billion last year, triple the pre-9/11 number.

And it seems that most of this spending is being paid for by China, to whom we owe billions of dollars . So not only is George Bush spending billion of dollars, but because he stubbornly refuses to raise taxes, he is leaving the debt to our children and grandchildren.

Remember that the rule for understanding what the President is really doing, is to take what he says in a press conference or speech and flip to the opposite. If you just keep doing that it seems the President is telling the truth.

He is after all, the Bizarro President.