Republicans' sudden interest in deficit, spending

What a funny bunch. Joe wrote earlier about the Republicans' new-found interest in deficits, and I had to weigh in. The Republicans have spent years building bigger government and throwing money at any project that moved, slashing government spending along the way. As a result the government failed to provide traditional oversight including on Wall Street. Now that they have no leadership other than the Alaska Hillbillies they're once again going back to their old favorite, budget cuts. If they hadn't increased spending while slashing taxes, maybe the problems would not be as deep, but no, who needs to reflect on decades of bad policy when the party is adrift?

Brace yourselves for more silly examples of spending as opposed to the 900 pound gorilla in the room called Iraq that they'd rather you forget. As much as the Democrats love kicking obscure Democrats such as Roland Burris, maybe it's time they turn their attention to fighting back hard against Republicans or the failed Republican policies that are finding their way into the Democratic party. If the GOP wants to talk about how to get the US economy moving again, shouldn't they at least accept responsibility for the recession that we are in today? We're in this once a century recession due to the Republicans, but you would never know it from their words.