[Hoot Gibson]

Are these fiscally conservative House Republicans the same ones that blew money like drunken sailors for the next 8 years?

Do you read or watch the news, BillyB? Do you have any clue as to what the deficits were during the previous periods that Republicans controlled the House (or the White House) versus what happened under Pelosi in the House and Obama in the White House? If you did, then you would not sound so foolish talking about government spending.

If Republicans in the 90s "blew money like drunken sailors," and Democrats and Obama have more than tripled the annual budget deficits on their watch, what does that make them?

I would post a graph of the budget deficits of Democrats and Obama juxtaposed against the budget deficits under Bush and the Republican House, but people who can read bar charts are probably tired of seeing them.

Notice how it is easy for me to give Bill Clinton credit for being able to work with House Republicans and how impossible it is for you to reciprocate? You seem to be the lone holdout willing to criticize past Republican spending in the face of the mountain of debt accumulated on Obama's watch.

I agree that both parties have and continue to spend, borrow, and tax too much but there is absolutely no way you can logically ridicule Republicans' spending and not paint Obama and the Democrats with an even bigger brush.

Of course anybody who can support Obama in lockstep and belittle any Republican's intelligence or competence has lost touch with reality, IMO. You carry the idea of supporting a party, right or wrong, to an illogical extreme.