Oh, Baby. It's all coming home to roost now. The Gubmint is spending like a drunken sailor (and I know whereof I speak, having been both drunk and a sailor and had some cash). Seems that the alleged "conservatives" are a little bit upset.

Federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century, provoking some conservatives to complain that government under Republican control has gotten too big.

The federal government is currently spending 20.8 cents of every $1 the economy generates, up from 18.5 cents in 2001, White House budget documents show. That's the most rapid growth during one administration since Franklin Roosevelt.

Remember that campaign stunt that Bunnypants used to pull, where he'd take four quarters and illustrate how the Government was taking some percentage (I think it was 25 cents) of every dollar that belonged to the American Taxpayer and wasting it? I wonder how all the "true believers" would feel if someone were to have told them that five years hence, an additional 20.8 cents per dollar was going to wasted doing things like lining the pockets of defense contractors and 1600 Crew cronys?

That might have cost the fool a few votes, if not the election. Well, we have all been saying that the fiscal policies of a failed MBA would be the death of us all, but I don't think we meant it quite this literally.

It's a shame that the rubber-stamp republicans in congress just gave this fool another increase in the National Credit Line. Now we can be in debt until 2301 instead of 2201. And isn't that a comforting thought?