White House incompetence, part 489

From Ezra Klein last week:

The Bush tax cuts and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and our various wars — none of which have been paid for, and all of which are ongoing — are major contributors to our mounting debt, and all were passed by Republican majorities. The debt ceiling had to be raised seven times during the Bush years...

Have you heard that soundbite a million times, over and over again, with the information firmly stuck in your head? No? Then that means the White House and congressional Democrats aren't doing their job well. They aren't.