By the way, in all this talk about the deficit, it should be pointed out that the only reason we even HAVE a deficit can be laid squarely on the shoulders of George W. Bush, who ran up the country’s debt enormously during his two terms in office, turning a surplus into trillions of dollars in debt.
In fact, if you go back and look at the history of the US deficit, the ballooning of the debt correlates pretty closely with Republican presidents.