Qualifications for a Fiscal Conservative

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL)

You owe your ex-wife (actually your kids) upwards of $100,000 in back child support, for which you are now being sued. Just two years ago you lost your home to foreclosure, because obviously you weren't paying that either. You take your new wife/former mistress on expensive trips to Europe during all this and still somehow loan your political campaign $35,000 cash from your pocket.  What sort of political label do you get in today's America?  Small government, fiscal conservative of course.

Seems to me if you have $35,000 cash laying around you should first pay your back child support so your kids can have their necessities and then pay your mortgage. But not according to fiscal conservatives.  According to them, the first thing you should do is lambast other people for their financial habits.  And then run for office as a Republican.