reality... when you continue to pretend that a BUDGET surplus is somehow going to change an ACTUAL deficit into a positive... you don't get to decide what constitutes fiscal responsibility. Especially when the guy you voted for twice has raised the nations debt by almost $5T in less than five years and you are proud of his accomplishments.
Whatever the fuck you want to call it (Bush himself called it a surplus), the surplus/deficit was a shade under $1.2T when Bush took office. And you voted for him. Twice.
I mean, let's assume just for giggles that Bush started with a deficit of $200,000. He increased it by $1T. Obama, by contrast, is on pace to have cut the deficit he inherited in half. I may not be a rocket surgeon, but even I know that increaseing the deficit by a factor of 6 is slightly worse than cutting the deficit in half.