they had every opportunity to say something about deficit spending between 2001 and 2009 when one of the major causes of deficit spending was the insanity in iraq. and so i put it to senator coons, future senator coons, to a ask, to challenge o'donnell and the other republicans to document their vociferous opposition to spending then. >> the way that this race is getting talked about essentially is that christine o'donnell is running a national campaign. she is trying to talk to the country, talk about national issues, sort of not even really talking about how they get filtered through delaware. mr. coons is talking delaware, delaware, delaware. that's the frame everyone is approaching this. in there listening to you and the other questions chris coons was getting asked, i didn't feel that was true. i felt there was a lot of big