On the Republican claim that Obama has increased nondefense discretionary spending by 80%

Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/discretionary-truthiness/ : "The number comes from taking nondefense discretionary spending as reported &mdash; which rose 26 percent from 2008 to 2010 (Table 8.7) &mdash; and then adding the entire discretionary spending part of the stimulus.... [N]ot all of the stimulus funds were spent in 2010... [and] stimulus spending is already in those discretionary spending numbers. So this GOP talking point is a complete fraud; it&rsquo;s based on counting the same spending several times over." This is not a mistake you can make by accident.