Bwahaha... and this is how they're going to try to spin spending?

.. by just ignoring the money that _was_ spent.

First, we all know Bush overspent (and never saw a budget bill he didn't like... but this is what you call true "spin".

President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.

The administration says Congress accepted at least $6.9 billion of the $11.3 billion in discretionary spending cuts Mr. Obama proposed for the current fiscal year. An analysis by The Washington Times found that Mr. Obama was victorious in getting Congress to slash 24 programs and achieved some level of success in reducing nine other programs.

Seriously, how do they keep writing these while keeping a straight face?     oooh.. so instead of a $1.3 trillion deficit it would have been $1.306 trillion!   Yep, that's real savings there, a real fiscal hawk you are, PBHO!