[listening - the jon spencer blues explosion: chowder.]

i'm not sure how fiscal responsibility was translated, but if i remember my political spectrum charts, a more right-wing government tends to promote less government spending.

gotcha. okay, explain this:

ouch. every republican president has increased the deficit and only one democrat (sorry jimmy) didn't decrease it. clinton brought the us'ians out in 8 years and bush junior brought the us'ians back down in 2. guess that tax cut didn't really help. can i say recession yet?

actually, with the full iraqi war rhetoric on now, hiding picasso paintings and all, it's freakish scary how appropriate tom tomorrow's 1990 cartoons fit our current predicament. that, along with ted rall's savage takes on high spending, war at all costs behaviour, and it's good to see that you're not alone in viewing the world as one bad skipping record.