A Spending Problem Republicans are Addicted To

Speaker Boehner's spending problem comments are only half right. Last week he stated the U.S. doesn't have a revenue problem but a spending problem. That's partially true. It's both to be precise. While federal revenues are decreasing we keep spending more and more.  It's kind of insane to keep doing that.  There has to come a time when you want to balance the two problems and bring both under control.

What the Speaker and his Republican Party don't want you to know is that they love spending just as much as they love slashing revenue.

Source: Historical Tables

The two biggest spenders are the fiscal conservatives, Reagan and George W. Bush.

That's not to say Democrats are great fiscal crusaders.  It's just to point out the people who claim to be fiscally conservative, deficit slashing hawks are actually not at all what they proclaim.  Dems may love to increase spending just as well, but at least they aren't campaigning all over the country on lies.  Nor are they now wanting everyone to believe that after decades of fiscal insanity caused primarily by their policies they are now concerned with the budget, the national debt and with the trillion dollar deficit they created. It's actually the GOP trying to pull that off.

Even as a percent of GDP, there is absolutely no track record of Republicans ever being concerned with a spending problem in relation to not enough revenue.

This is clearly an addiction Rush Limbaugh would be proud of.