not a bad welcome gift from the outgoing president william jefferson clinton. now fast forward eight years, as president george w. bush left office and handed the keys to president obama. quite a different world. instead of a national debt of $5 trillion, eight years later it was $11 trillion, more than doubled under president george w. bush, a fiscal conservative by his own self-description. and look at what he left for president obama in his first budget, first year. $1.2 trillion deficit. not a surplus, but a deficit ten times as large as the surplus left by president clinton. that was what president obama inherited. as he said in the state of the union address, we lost three million jobs in the six months preceding his being sworn in and another three million before his economic stimulus bill was passed and implemented. six million jobs gone, a devastating impact on the economy. 750,000 people lost their job the month that president obama was sworn in to office. and now senator mcconnell comes to the floor and says that's obama's fault. i don't think that's