You clearly do not understand. If Democrats took control of congressional seats starting in 2007 which means they have greater control over the bills being voted because they have a higher of potential number of votes to part with than ever before. They controlled the budget process for FY2008 and FY2009, as well as for FY2010 and FY2011. And the majority votes were Democrat votes on these bills, not the Republicans which were even less.
You see, Foxrac, Bush couldn't have signed the budget bill in 2008 to spend money in FY2009. Democrats made sure that this wouldn't happen by stalling this vote until Obama became president. It soon passed after that and then it was Obama who signed the 2008 budget bill for FY2009 spending!!! Read the history.
Obama, while as a senator, voted for the FY2008 budget bill. What irony. A bill that was passed mostly in favor by Democrats. And Obama blames Bush? What a nice little lie there for those who are completely clueless about the political history of these bills.
Most if not all of the Democrats voted for these budget bills containing pork provisions, the Stimulus package 1 and 2, and the TARP bill.
There are currently 58 Democrat senators, 40 Republican senators, and two independent senators—Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont—both of whom side with Democrats (not always with Lieberman).
If you didn't know there are three Senate seats that are up for grabs in January 2010 (Kennedy's old seat (Mass), Joe Biden's seat (Delaware), and Hillary Clinton (NY). As long as Obama's polls continue to tank and the people don't like what they're seeing about the economy and such by January, those seats will certainly be contested to the favor of conservative Republicans. And then we'll wait until November 2010 to vote on more available seats where many of both Dems (19 seats) and Reps (18 seats) term limits are up. Again, same idea applies by November should Obama not fare well by then and the economy continues to be stagnant or tank further, then the conservative Republicans will be at an advantage just like last month when two Republican governors were voted in (NJ and VA) that held by Democrat governors.
2010 will be an interesting year I tell you. Democrats continue to become increasingly nervous as they watch the falling polls each week and month.