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There is one problem with your tired old caricature of Dems as the spendthrift party and Repubs as the responsible fiscal conservatives. It is in fact the DEMS who presided over the return to a budget surplus and the REPUBS who presided over the biggest turnaround in fiscal balance in the history of the world under Bush. Cant blame the Dems either because the Repubs had the Presidency, the Senate, the House and even the Supreme Court on their side. They own this problem.

I see your point.

It is the Dems who are fiscally responsible nowadays.

and then there is this giant leap of faith, probably based on past evidence during the clinton administration while the republicans held the purse strings.

I don't think either party is fiscally responsible right now, evidenced by our current deficit. The dems hold the purse strings right now. Is there current evidence of fiscal responsibility?