Jackie Calmes: Republicans being the party of fiscal conservatism? Don't believe it for a minute
With a Democrat inhabiting the White House, perhaps the most predictable thing about House Republicans' return to power is this: They've rediscovered their faux fiscal conservatism. All week members of the Republican majority have been chest-beating about how, thanks to the new House rules they devised, they will restore rectitude to federal budgeting. Income will be balanced against spending ...
With a Democrat inhabiting the White House, perhaps the most predictable thing about House Republicans' return to power is this: They've rediscovered their faux fiscal conservatism.
All week members of the Republican majority have been chest-beating about how, thanks to the new House rules they devised, they will restore rectitude to federal budgeting. Income will be balanced against spending and debt reduced, just as American families have to do at their kitchen tables.
Don't take that promise to the bank. It'll bounce. And not because Republicans are up against the supposedly profligate of Republican governance in the House, a little fiscal history is in order, no green eyeshades needed.
