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Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.

I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.