CNN ran an "angry black man" article this morning by a Republican consultant. Obviously they're really hanging this one on turning out the racists.

I'd like to see a chart of that 200 years of debt accumulation.

answered my own question.

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

That's a nice graph, but it assumes that the Congress would have just gone along with surpluses and done what they never do -- stopped increasing spending. Both parties are to blame and sites that claim that the Republicans or Democrats are to blame for the national debt are just exposing their biases. We are where we are because politicians can't help themselves and they can't stop spending.