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From Peter Ferarra's article in Forbes:
Moreover, as Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Hans Bader reported in May, “The Democrat Congress [in 2008], confident Obama was going to win in 2008, passed only 3 of fiscal 2009’s 12 appropriations bills (Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security). The Democrat Congress passed the rest of them [in 2009], and [President] Obama signed them.” So Obama played a very direct role in the runaway fiscal 2009 spending explosion.
Links:
[1] http://cei.org/expert/hans-bader
[2] http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0716/capital-flows-financial-budget-obama-biggest-spender-history.html