As the U.S. House prepares to vote on adding a jaw dropping $3.3 trillion — that’s with a T — to the national debt, it seems a good time to take a big, beautiful stroll down memory lane.

Back to the good old days when our nation’s mounting debt was a bad thing and Republicans pledged to do something about it.

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs has made a career of crusading against Congress’ addiction to living beyond our means, annually introducing resolutions calling the debt unsustainable and downright dangerous.

“I first introduced this resolution in 2018, arguing our $21 trillion debt was a threat to our national security,” Biggs said in 2021. “Yet Congress has failed to take any meaningful action to curb its spending addiction.”

By 2023, the debt had ballooned to $33.17 trillion, and Biggs warned that we were on the brink of financial disaster.

“Future generations will bear these costs, and that’s unacceptable,” he said.

You might think those costs would trouble U.S. Rep. David Schweikert.

For years, he’s been sounding the alarm about our soaring debt, delivering weekly floor speeches full of numbers-dense predictions that should shock you out of your socks.

“Government overspending is creating a huge burden of debt that

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