Yes, Clinton's budget, his tax increases and defense spending cuts, they did cost the Democrats the House. Gingrich voted against that budget, then campaigned a

Yes, Clinton's budget, his tax increases and defense spending cuts, they did cost the Democrats the House. Gingrich voted against that budget, then campaigned against it, winning the Speakership, then shut the government down over it, twice, and then after it turned a profit, tried/tries to take credit for it. Obama didn't increase that debt by spending. He did it by inheriting Bush's Great Recession with its sky high unemployment and lack of tax revenues. He managed to decrease the deficit each year until his last. Obama's singular spending initiative, the ACA or Obamacare, is dirt cheap compared to the $6T of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And then there's Medicare Part D. BTW, the ACA cost the Democrats the House as well. Some things are worth fighting for.