However, the tit-for-tat response is that every Republican voted for it.
The difference is that then, the debt was in single-digit trillions and the annual deficits were 1/3 what they are now.
The debt issue was serious then but it is beyond critical now since the shoving of Obamacare, Stimulus, bailouts, TARP, QE 1&2, and huge growth of virtually every socialist program up our keesters.
In '06 we didn't have the crisis we have now.
But back then when unemployment was 5% the Dems were all lying and saying we had the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.
So now that we really DO have a terrible economy they want to raise the ceiling? Uh huh.
Exactly.