A few weeks ago on 30 Rock, uber-Republican Jack Donaghy made a joke about how Nancy Pelosi started the recession. Rep. Jeb Hensarling doesn't think it's a joke. From what I've read, Hensarling is a classic backlash/angry conservative, which makes sense considering that even his last name sounds angry--it almost sounds like "he's snarling", which I suspect he often is during congressional debates.
What has struck me most about this whole economic debate is the utter depths of arrogance that Republicans still display. It seems to have never occurred to them that they might need to rethink their assumptions on anything, and political dogma has taken on something of a religious tone. Par for the course when the religious right is your largest bloc of support, but I tend to think that, until Republicans honestly own up to their failures, they won't be trusted with any real power.
