The Dems deserve to lose the next three elections if they don’t use this in every campaign against sitting “fiscally conservative” repiglicans:

Quote of the Decade?

You’ve probably seen it already (here’s Ezra Klein, for example), regarding Medicare Part D:

Six years ago, “it was standard practice not to pay for things,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

(From a first-rate AP story by Charles Babington)

It does let me once again make one of my standard points…the explosion of the deficit during the Bush years was not a sign that Congress is unable to control the budget; it’s a sign that Republican Congresses and President Bush got exactly what they wanted out of the budget. It was all dessert, all the time, no justification or argument necessary.  Just, we don’t pay for things anymore.

via Jonathan Bernstein