Magic Thinking from the GOP

It's tough being a Congressman, GOP version, like the honorable Mike Coffman of Colorado, who posts this on pages Pages E1859-E1860 of the 11/30 Congressional Record. You have to actually believe stuff like this:

Mr. Speaker, on January 20, 2009, the day President Obama took office, the national debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08. 

 Today, it is $16,323,083,449,604.98. We've added $5,696,206,400,691.90 to our debt in nearly 4 years.

 (OK-- so far so good. It's useful to point out that the President is a trifle out of control when it comes to spending. But the problem is the conclusion...)

This is $5 trillion in debt our nation, our economy, and our children could have avoided with a balanced budget amendment.
 

And here is the GOP -- irresponsible tea party division-- in a nutshell. Spending bad. Spending problem. Wave magic constitutional wand. Problem gone. And with no sweat, we show we are real, real serious. Without actually doing anything remotely real.

*sigh*