The Republicans Have Become the Party of Debt.

What was simple hypocrisy has now become self-parody. (NYT editorial)

*The true culprits are the House speaker, Paul Ryan, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. Both are self-proclaimed deficit hawks. “In this generation, a defining responsibility of government is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is still time,” Mr. Ryan declared in 2012. But recent actions have revealed that the real game is to cut taxes on businesses and the wealthy, and use the resulting deficits as a pretext for cutting programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security that benefit the poor and the middle class.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/republicans-deficit-debt.html?