Republican accountability

Today those fiscally responsible Republicans passed a bill that would raise the country's debt limit to accommodate massive spending and the Bush tax cuts.

Only a handful of Republicans spoke in favor of the measure as a mostly empty Senate chamber conducted a brief debate Wednesday evening.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Bush's tax cuts account for just 30 percent of the debt limit increases required during his presidency. Revenue losses from a recession and new spending to combat terrorism and for the war in Iraq are also responsible, he said.

But the war in Iraq is also the President's responsibility. After all, it's his administration who severely miscalculated the cost of this thing. And he's the one that led us in there in the first place.

And of course, without the Bush tax cuts, we might actually have the money to spend on some of these things. Since we don't the GOP has piled high the debt and the interest future generations must help pay off.

But it's not their fault. They're only in charge of everything.