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Neither party cares about the debt. But only one party uses the debt as an excuse to shut down the government, harming the economy. Only one party keeps passing massive tax cuts while increasing spending. The other party proposes tax increases to pay for the money they want to spend. Democrats have become the party of fiscal responsibility. Just look at the last few decades. Every time a Republican president gets a Republican Congress, the deficit explodes!
Yeah, the GOP harps on the debt, but it's all talk. What I looked at was during the G.W. Bush presidency, almost all Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling, almost all Republicans voted for raising it. Them comes Obama and both parties did a 180. Now it was the Republicans voting against raising the debt ceiling, Democrats voting for it. No core value there. Just something to be used politically by the party out of power.
What one forgets is all spending bills must be written, passed by the House. During Reagan and G.H.W Bush, it was the democratic House that went along. The GOP controlled house for the last six years of Bill Clinton. The last two years of G.W. was a Democratic controlled House with the last six years of Obama, the GOP controlled the House.