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So the President has a little bit to do with spending--he starts the budgeting process and then finishes it by saying either yes or no, signing the spending bills or vetoing them. I can't see where the judicial branch has anything to say about fiscal issues at all and the Constitution grants them no such powers.
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I think the thing that is missing from your post is that the President and his party are the ones who put the political pressure on the other party by continually bombarding us in the press with how bad the Rebs are if they DON'T do what they want.
I think that that you are right that both side are not doing all they can do to fix this but I think that the Rebs do a lot of the things they do to survive the attacks from the left, including the pres., when they go against the left and the left leaning press.
That make the president a major player in how the deficit grows, not just the House of Rep.