How can anyone even consider the democrats being fiscally responsible when they are running up the biggest deficit in the history of the nation?

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…

Get the far right out of my bedroom and the left out of my wallet and I'll be a happy camper.

Stimulus (and other “investments” [sic]) vs. Deficit

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1264/stimulus-spend…

Pete, _ p l e a s e _ go beyond the mere rhetoric and a) examine the details; b) consider the motives.

This initiative deliberately excludes vast amounts of spending — it contains notorious exemptions.

Add to that that a number of Dems like Rangel will fight even this bogus fiscal restraint, as they have in the past. Rangel, for one, is on public record as opposed to “Pay-Go” (an abbreviation of the correct term, “pay-as-you-go,” to make it easier and snappier to hear and say); Dems are opposed to displine.

We know what this is: an Obama-continued-campaign gimmick, a Dem-voters'-feel-good gimmick, a pretence at responsibility (to make Obamaniacs and Dem voters feel good) that provides political coverer for, and a (bogus) rationalization (more directly, a fraudulent excuse) for future tax increases.

Let's see real balanced budgets (overall, no “on-” vs. “off-” budget gimmickry and evasion), some real fiscal responsibility (the Dems have wasted no time in showing themselves to be the worst when it comes to finance and willingness to buy popularity and _votes_; they already have dwarfed the GOP's poorest behavior, as was anticipated, was predictable), and let's see reform consist mainly of reduction in spending, not vast tax increases that put the federal government into heretorefore unknown size ranges of the GDP and fraction of the economy (while smug lib Dems look at Europe and giggle about US “progress”). Let us see the federal government subject _itself_ to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and reduce size and spending even _more_ than needed for present-day corrections in order to set finances right for the vast future liabilities (which someday may be reduced, somehow).