Can you believe how much the national debt increased under GOP rule? http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm I'm not persuaded that the war needed to cost that much. Either way, cutbacks are needed and the Democrats can now get to deal with making or ignoring them, just as Bill Clinton and a Democrat Congress had to either punt or run with the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico at the end of the Cold War. At least we can rejoice that Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's now out of office and forced to look for a real job in Atlanta:
