I think we can relegate the term "fiscal conservative" to the scrapheap of history.
Well there's still a few around:
Tom Coburn
Jim DeMint
Mike Pence
Mark Sanford
"I think we can relegate the term "fiscal conservative" to the scrapheap of history."
Sadly, I think you're right. When a Republican House and a Republican Senate pass a bill as bursting with pork as the transportation bill, and a Republican president who pledged to veto spending bills as high as that one signs it anyway, there are no more fiscal conservatives in Washington.