The national debt will pass 17 trillion dollars this year if the trend continues it is predicted to hit 20 trillion by the end of Obama's term so what would Obama teach the GOP outside of new and faster ways to spend money and raise debt?
That's all the GOP does is spend like lunatics when they get the chance.
Under Clinton, we had something unheard of to the GOP called "a balanced budget". We had the biggest surplus in US history until W came into office. From there he spent and spent and spent some more, and took the nation's largest surplus and turned it into the largest deficit.
It take a real idiot to pull that one off, and those idiots are the GOP.