Supposedly conservative, fiscally responsible Republicans took over Congress back when Bill Clinton was still occupying the White House, and what has happened since has been the most spectacular eruption of spending in the history of the United States, an economy-imperiling burst of billions, a kaboom that could ultimately give us a crisis.

So what you do in a democracy is change things, which is to say, vote in the Democrats this November, not just in the House, but in the Senate, too, and … but wait, what’s that we’re hearing on the campaign trail? Talk of an “American Dream Initiative,” a plan by Democrats to solve our problems by — oh, no. We are out of luck. The Democrats plan to fix things not by clamping down on spending, but by doing more of it.