So's Cryin' George Voinovich

"Republicans would do well to remember that their party's great deficit hawk was not Ronald Reagan, but George Bush the Elder."

No, actually, the formula's quite simple. You want to raise taxes, you're a tax and spender. It's only that you're a hypocrite if you say you want to do it to balance the budget, and a fool if you believe it will balance the budget. Cryin' George happens to be both.

There is only one way to be a deficit hawk, and that is to, you know, cut spending, and of course by cut spending one means "cut spending," not "raise spending."