The national debt: 1797-2010

The Wall Street Journal offers a unique, graphical perspective on the national debt since 1797.

Save World War II -- an existential, global struggle against Nazism and Military Shintoism -- no federal bureaucracy has run up the national debt like the 111th Congress and President Obama.

Of course, he's done so for an equally important cause: promoting a counter-revolution to America's founding. Of that, there can be no doubt.