Here's an opinion piece from the New York Post, discussing the Cato Institute's new study on government spending during the Bush administration.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43632.htm
Here's a link to the study itself.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa543.pdf
Bush is the biggest spender since LBJ. Even if you discount military and homeland security spending. And, that doesn't even include the new Medicare entitlement that hasn't really started costing any money until fiscal 2006.
The Post column says that Republicans are going to suffer for the spending explosion in the next few elections.