Robby,
I don't consider the deficit issue to really be a partisan issue, because both parties are guilty. The Republicans made it a huge issue, back during the Newt Gingrich days, and now are ignoring the very arguements they used then. The Democrats are guilty of deficit spending, but that is what helped the Republicans gain their majority in the house and senete. The hypocracy, is now that they, Republicans, are running the show, they have ignored their own issue, and in fact have embraced deficit spending, except for a few standouts, like McCain. I have problems, as most conservatives do, with deficit spending. But the Republicans, have left us, true conservatives, out in the cold. It just goes to show, that the two major parties, have lost touch with reality. They are both against deficit spending, when they are not the ones doing the spending. That is why I am no longer a republican, but a Libertarian. I am not the only exrepublican, who has left the party, due to the hypocracy, conserning deficit spending, and I will not be voting for Bush, this time around. Bush did win the last election, through the electoral college, but not the popular vote, so you can not call it soundly defeating Gore. I voted for Bush against Gore, but will hold my nose and vote for Kerry. If there are enough of us that do so, Bush will lose the election, and there will be a balence in our government again.
Later
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)