Barack To The Future
Seattle PI's Sue Lani Madsen quotes the President from his Senatorial days:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

-Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

We sure the hell do. The voters need to stop voting in the Barack Obamas and ficus-tree-smart Janice Hahns of the world (she's my new Congressidiot -- spoke to her on the phone once and found her even dumber and less able to carry on a debate than she's been made out to be in the local press).