A few things changed in 2001, too.

Oddly, nobody seems to remember that event and its consequences when liberals here gloat about the economic difficulties after that time. Finally, after 2003, revenues began rising and deficits fell steadily until the last year or so. Jobs increased all that time, but apparently that doesn't count because they didn't increase as fast as under Clinton, when the U.S. was basking in peace dividends and Fukuyama's "End of History," and the attacks on our cities were still in the planning stages.

If this same trillion-dollar "stimulus" bomb had been dropped by Republicans, you and the others here would be screaming blue murder. Face it, the real reason huge deficits are okay now is that they are Democratic deficits.