That would be the guy now in the White House:

If President Bush’s budget for fiscal 2009 is approved in its current form, U.S. government spending will have increased by more than $1.2 trillion since President Clinton left office; adjusted for inflation, that’s a 35% increase. Bush has increased spending at three times the rate Clinton did when he was president, and also has given us the biggest defense budget since World War II — and that’s regularly budgeted defense spending, not counting funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Hmmm. And what about that defense budget, innyway?

Of Bush’s $987.6 billion in discretionary spending, more than half — $515.4 billion — would go to the Pentagon, but that doesn’t include any war funding. To be sure, the president did request $75.8 billion in emergency funding, of which $70 billion is targeted for the war in Iraq and fighting terrorism, with the remainder going toward hurricane relief for the Gulf Coast. However, because this amount received an emergency designation, it is not included in the deficit projections.

So, you have to love the way this works: Hey, the deficit is only this - but “this” doesn’t include the cost of our wars. Because, as Matt Yglesias notes, we seem to have this idea that defense spending doesn’t really count as spending. It does, of course - but mention this, and teh terrorists win.