This morning, I saw the headline of Karl Rove’s latest in the WSJ — and skipped it. Intentionally. The man has no credibility. But Andrew Sullivan couldn’t resist a read and reaction:

Rove would have you believe it’s those spend-and-splurge Democrats. In fact, of course, the massive debt has been building for years and its new height was precipitated by the recession begun under Bush (who was still in office a year ago), by the stimulus necessary to prevent a total abyss, by the bailout money required to rescue the banks, and by the continued de-leveraging after the reckless private borrowing of the Bush-Cheney years.

Andrew’s list of reasons for the debt’s “new height” omits Bush’s Medicare drug benefit expansion. Otherwise: What he said.