Deficit hawks and the games they play
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightFor 30 years, conservative ideologues have played moderate deficit hawks for suckers. You'd think this might endow those middle-of-the-road deficit-busters with a touch of humility. Fat chance. They stick with their self-righteous moralism, pretending to be bipartisan and beyond ideology. In fact, they make the problem they want to solve worse by continuing to empower the tax-cuts-in-every-season conservatives.