This is extraordinary : White House sees record budget gap in 2009 - Yahoo! News

Bush is going to leave the next incumbent with the largest headache ever by a leaving president. The incompetence of his administration has been absolutely staggering.

But I guess that the GOP stalwarts will find some way of blaming it all on Clinton/Obama/Liberals/Japan/Santa Claus/Anybodyelsebutus even though they have been calling the shots for the last two terms.