Answer: Republican majorities.

Question: what will it take to make Democrats care about budget deficits again? *

* This blog post written in Jeopardy format in honor of Watson, the first supercomputer ever to compete on Jeoparty and the precursor to Skynet and our computer overlords whose benevolent rule we at The Trog welcome wholeheartedly (and so will you…if you know what’s good for you).