'"The Washington Post reports that despite the popular Democratic myth that the federal budget is being squeezed left and right by heartless Republicans, the debt is $1 trillion higher than when tea party GOP House members came to town a year ago. It will grow by an additional $1 trillion by the end of 2012, according to projections. "We've saved the American taxpayer about 17 hours of spending. That's it," Rep. Reid Ribble, a freshman GOP House member from Wisconsin, told the Post. "When you just really stop and think about it, we've made very little progress."'