akuma587 on 27 January 2009
I actually think the Democrats are poised to become the "fiscally responsible party", although obviously not in the short term. The only problem is they will have to convince people to except tax hikes. Republicans certainly cannot claim that they are fiscally responsible, and its ludicrous that recently they have tried to act like they always have been. You can't have control of both the Oval Office and Congress while racking up the largest debts our country has seen in history and claim you are fiscally conservative. Its just a flat out lie.
Republicans need to quit being so obsessed with tax cuts and learn that tax cuts do not equal fiscal responsibility. They thought if we cut taxes enough it would tame the government into something smaller, yet they threw that out the window as soon as they could. Fiscal conservatism =/ cutting taxes like its going out of style.
I don't think most Republicans can say 10 words without saying tax cuts. Its like a knee jerk reaction. You give them a tax cut and they play with it like its catnip for hours and hours. They would cut taxes until America burned to the ground if we'd let them.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
