Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX): "[Y]ou cannot borrow and spend your way to prosperity." I bet he wasn't saying this back during the Bush years, when the administration would routinely talk about how deficits don't matter, cut cap gains to the moon, it's all good for the economy, no matter what shape the economy's in! Borrowing and spending is no problem unless you're a tax-and-spend Democrat, of course. In which case, folks like Jeb Hensarling need to stand up for Joe Q. Taxpayer and talk about the crushing weight of debt on our grandkids. In any event, this joker, like virtually every other House Republican, voted for the all-tax cut Republican alternative stimulus plan, which seems to me to be a vote to borrow and spend your way to prosperity. Can we drop the shit and just admit that you don't want to spend money on things like schools and bridges that help everyone, and just give it to rich people?
Look, there are certainly principled conservatives out there, and there are no doubt many Republicans who oppose the stimulus out of legitimate reasons. The bulk of them, though, are completely full of shit.
