Benny, do you get your lies from these bimbos at CNN? This guy is not a fiscal conservative, he is a fiscal brokedown mess. Wanting to jack up taxes is not being fiscally conservative. This guy is only against tax cuts, he is not for cutting spending. The only reason he and the Dems were against the medicare D prescription benefit is because of the competition mechanism built in and the lack of price caps, which is what kept the program from being anywhere near as expensive as antipated. It is the only government entitlement program to cost less than antipated. All other entitlement programs have costed more. Ofcourse, that doesnt mean it was right to pass it, but it was passed because the Dems would have passed something far worse - like Obamacare. He was against one third of the Stimulus because that third was tax cuts. What a fucking surprise. Also, notice that he didnt include the other big spending by Democrats - Obamacare, the other stimulus packages, the rediculous and unprecendeted extenstion of unemployment benefits for 2 years. Ofcourse, the other thing that didnt get mentioned is the 25% increase in non defense discretionary spending.