"74 percent of Republicans in the new poll expressed grave worry about the deficit, 29 points higher than in December when George W. Bush held the reins."Is this the re-birth of fiscal conservatism? Considering Republicans always have amnesia about the tenets of their party every time they have power, it's comes off pretty weak.
Show me one Republican who worried about deficits under Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43. Dick Cheney infamously said, "Deficits don't matter." And keep in mind Bush 43 entered with a surplus and a trend of sound fiscal governance after Clinton. The fact is 90 percent of the current national debt was run up under Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II.
The GOP lost massively in the last two election cycles while running huge deficits and Federally spending out of control, yet now that Obama is in, and America NEEDS the spending, they are worrying?
The GOP broke the system, now we have to pay for it AND listen to them whine. Let it go.
Source: WaPo
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