Under Barack Obama, the national debt increased more than $8.6 trillion — a 74% increase from when he took office.  Now that a supposed fiscal conservative is in the White House, the situation isn't much better.  The national debt is scheduled to increase from $22 trillion to $31 trillion — a 40% rise.  And that's only if the rosy economic scenarios the White House has come up with actually come to pass. What happened to the Republican deficit hawks?  CNN: During the Obama era, Paul Ryan spent years presenting lean, entitlement-reforming budgets in the House, knowing they would go nowhere with Democrats in control of the Senate and the White House.  Still, it was a political move to lay out priorities that Republicans would presumably enact should they ever get full control of Washington.  Among those most prominent Tea Party conservatives pounding the table for significant spending cuts was Mick...(Read Full Post)