This is the Party of No. The ideology of the stop sign. Cowardly America-haters who can't come to grips with the fact that they've lost in the Grand Arena of Ideas. And now these guttersnipes are going to take the greatest nation in history down with them. Their heads should rest atop a pike. They...

...oh, wait, did you say it's the Republicans? Forget I said anything. Hey, are those guys giving away free Monster energy drinks?

while gwb may well grab the top tier rung as "worst president of all time", this congress, republican dominated, must surely be in competition for the "worst congress in u.s. history"

what a combo (and one i'm not likely to order at red lobster!): worst president + worst congress (with drawn butter on the side)= totally screwed country.

David M. Walker sure talks like he's running for office. "This is about the future of our country, our kids and grandkids," the comptroller general of the United States warns a packed hall at Austin's historic Driskill Hotel. "We the people have to rise up to make sure things get changed."
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Their basic message is this: If the United States government conducts business as usual over the next few decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. That's almost as much as the total net worth of every person in America - Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and those Google guys included.

A hole that big could paralyze the U.S. economy; according to some projections, just the interest payments on a debt that big would be as much as all the taxes the government collects today. And every year that nothing is done about it, Walker says, the problem grows by $2 trillion to $3 trillion.
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"It's kind of a paradoxical result. Your commonsense logic would tell you if one party is in control of everything they should be able to take action," Sawhill says.

But the last six years of Republican rule have produced tax cuts, record spending increases and a Medicare prescription drug plan that has been widely criticized as fiscally unsound. When President Clinton faced a Republican Congress during the 1990s, spending limits and other legislative tools helped produce a surplus.
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"Realistically what we hope to accomplish through the fiscal wake-up tour is ensure that any serious candidate for the presidency in 2008 will be forced to deal with the issue," he says. "The best we're going to get in the next couple of years is to slow the bleeding."

By the time the gavel comes down on the 109th Congress on Friday, members will have worked a total of 103 days. That's seven days fewer than the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress" of 1948.