re: #27 3eff Jeff

I tend to the fiscal conservative end as well (but with enough nuance that I am not a libertarian), and I’m strongly socially liberal. I’ve got my fingers crossed for the Whigs taking the baton for the next century. The US History geek in me loves the idea.

Not that they’ve actually balanced the budget, but the Dems did pass PAYGO (on a strict party-line vote with zero Republican support).

There’d actually been PAYGO during more than half of the Clinton administration, but Congress let it expire during the Bush years (because otherwise they couldn’t have done Medicare D).