I believe it was in February 09 that the Democratic Congress passed the “pay-go” bill that was supposed to require offsetting spending cuts for any spending increase. It was a weak attempt to show the public they were concerned about the deficit. The Pubbies are only holding them to their own bill now.
That’s why I hold both parties to the fire. This is, unfortuntely, basically mandatory now. This truly is the ‘worst economy since the depression’ even though they cried wolf about that all through Bush’s term.
It’s really awful that the dems aren’t going to use the stimulus funds, but the GOP comes across as only slamming the ones that are suffering.