Why don't Republicans care about the deficit anymore?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

They never cared to begin with. Literally the same exact thing happens over and over.

- Democrat is president (Carter, Clinton, Obama)
- Republicans pretend to care about deficit, accuse Democrat of being a deficit buster despite some of them actually lowering it, media treats this as principled good faith concern
- Republican is president (Reagan, Bush, Trump)
- Republicans explode the deficit with unpaid for tax cuts and/or wars, media is silent

Rinse and repeat.

And it's funny people talk about how Jeff Flake shouldn't "abandon his beliefs on tax cuts just because he's anti-Trump." The guy's claim to fame was being a "deficit hawk", yet he voted for a deficit busting tax scam because he's a partisan hack. He has zero principles.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I'm sure it varies.  I think many of them just parrot whatever stupid shepherd they're following this week tells them to parrot. (this is true of every political group, don't think you're better) Many others are legitimately disappointed I think.  I'm disappointed that they've been so damn quiet about it.

You realize that slipping the "both sides do it" backhanded defense of the current GOP in there, is you just parroting the GOP's core strategy for the mid-terms, right?  I'll admit the irony is pretty good, though.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

They never cared to begin with. Literally the same exact thing happens over and over.

- Democrat is president (Carter, Clinton, Obama)
- Republicans pretend to care about deficit, accuse Democrat of being a deficit buster despite some of them actually lowering it, media treats this as principled good faith concern
- Republican is president (Reagan, Bush, Trump)
- Republicans explode the deficit with unpaid for tax cuts and/or wars, media is silent

Rinse and repeat.

And it's funny people talk about how Jeff Flake shouldn't "abandon his beliefs on tax cuts just because he's anti-Trump." The guy's claim to fame was being a "deficit hawk", yet he voted for a deficit busting tax scam because he's a partisan hack. He has zero principles.

(I know I'm resurrecting an old thread here, but I think it's age helps make the point.)

Right on schedule here comes MoscowMitch...
McConnell rejects Democrats’ effort to get GOP to back raising the nation’s debt limit

Democrats are about to tell Republicans to go take a hike, and start keying up trillion more dollars in borrowing and spending,” McConnell said in Senate floor remarks. “They want Republicans to give them political cover for the partisan debt bomb that they’ll go right on to detonate with zero input from my colleagues.”

“They won’t get our help,” the Kentucky Republican continued. “They won’t get our help with the debt limit increase that recklessly, that these reckless plans will require. I could not be more clear. They have the ability. They control the White House, they control the House, they control the Senate. They can raise the debt ceiling and if it’s raised, they will do it.”

And the rest of his caucuscult is right there with him, so hypocritical that even FoxNews is calling it out:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1424370112019185664