Republicans and Democrats alike issued a flurry of accusatory statements today, both sides hoping that their desperate spin would convince a soon to be stunned public that the other side "did it".  What will soon be stunning that public is a 1,209 page, $1 trillion plus spending bill that will fund most of the government through September of next year. If you do the math, that averages over $827 million of spending per page!

Yesterday, on the floor of the United States Senate, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) joined several of his Republican colleagues in a colloquy in which they voiced their support for addressing the current debt crisis immediately and providing solutions, such as a series of spending cuts and caps and attaching balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.