"In just one month, the Democrats have spent more than President Bush spent in seven years on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina combined."
Well, the fact-checkers at PolitiFact looked into that, and here's what they found:
This is quickly becoming a Republican talking point. Rep. John Boehner, the House Minority Leader, used the same line in a statement on March. 4.
...we take issue with McConnell's calculations of Democratic spending and Bush's war spending.
...McConnell's claim stands up only if you treat tax cuts as spending, accept an incomplete estimate of the wars' costs and group several years of planned spending into a one-month spending spree by the Democrats -- but not for Bush. That is, it doesn't stand up at all. We find this claim False.
