We got what you elected

"In January 2001, the U.S. budget was balanced for the first time in decades and the Congressional Budget Office was forecasting surpluses totaling $5.6 trillion by 2011. A decade later, the national debt is larger, as a percentage of the economy, than at any time in U.S. history except for the period shortly after World War II.

So what happened?"
 
We elected selected George W. Bush president with a Republican-controlled Congress and by the time they were done, we had a $1.4 trillion deficit. 

It's not easy cleaning up after Republicans.