Jim Inhofe: “first of all, we came back. We weren't anticipating coming back from this recess that we were going to be on. I can't…”

“first of all, we came back. We weren't anticipating coming back from this recess that we were going to be on. I can't help but think a lot of that was a result of the statements President Obama made, criticizing the Senate for leaving at a time when the debt was so bad when, in fact, I think that is a bum rap. We have a serious problem I think we need to address and that is spending. All of these things President Obama is doing right now to make everyone think we are trying to address it--appointing committees and groups to get together; having the Vice President head up this group and the other group; and Republicans and Democrats meeting--all the President has to do is quit spending. I have been here for a few years and I remember during the Clinton administration in 1995, I came down to this podium on the floor complaining that President Clinton had come out with a new budget and that budget was $1.5 trillion. I said, this is unbelievable. It is not sustainable. We can't do it. That was $1.5 trillion to run this country for a period of 1 year. Now this President has come up with three budgets. Each one of the budgets is a multitrillion-dollar deficit budget. The last one was $1.65 trillion. This is more than the total amount of money it took to run the entire country. It is all in the President's budget. It comes out initially $800 billion for stimulus that didn't stimulate.…”