If there was no Budget Surplus, why did Republicans use it as justification for supporting Bush's schemes?

That justifies 0bama spending us into 3rd world status? 2 wrongs don't make a right. And here's another one..... it's not that you make a mistake that matters, it's what you do to correct it that does. Republicans appear to have learned from their spending spree, 0bama wants to spend even more.