The Illusion of the Fiscally Responsible Republican Party

I have heard this shit so many times, I almost started believing it myself. But here is the deficit data in a time series, from the Federal Reserve website. As I remembered from my childhood, there really weren't deficits in the 60's by our present standards. Both parties were fiscally conservative from WWII on. Until about, 1980.

Let's see, what happened then... Oh yeah, Reagan, the well-known fiscally conservative talker-not walker took office. The deficits doubled and eventually tripled under Papa Bush, reaching 300B in FY1991. Bitchin'. Way to go guys. Party of Goldwater, right?

Under Clinton, we had a ramp to a surplus of over 200B at its peak. Nice going Bubba. Oh wait, he was a democrat, never mind the stain on the dress. We should have made him king.

Then let's see what baby Bush did. Oh yeah, the least fiscally responsible human being ever. What do we have here? A legend, a myth, pure bullshit. They have not been fiscally responsible in my lifetime in their stewardship of the national coin. Pure bullshit. Reagan gets a pass to this day from these chumps we call pundits. Can they not read a bargraph? The democrats have been the poster-children of fiscal responsibility in our lifetimes. Good god, cease the bullshit!