Brian Higgins actually said...

"Every Republican since Nixon has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited without exception."

"Every Democratic presidential administration has left office with a better deficit situation as a percentage of GDP than they inherited."

"Those surpluses were taken by the next administration, a Republican administration, to provide tax cuts to the very, very wealthy on the faulty theory that trickled down would help grow the economy, a..."

"They contributed to the debt and therefore have a moral responsibility to raise the debt ceiling to help the American economy."