Republicans: we are now against spending cuts, they're unpopular and won't work

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Just watch how fast this attitude changes when Democrats take the federal government back (whenever that might be). Suddenly there will be no money for anything, and brutal austerity is the only way to go.

After all, the unwritten rule in conservatives eyes is that only they get to "govern" (or try, right?), and those temporary periods of time where Republicans are booted out are only when voters get confused about how the way things are. Obviously then it is the duty of Congressional Republicans to obstruct until they can claw back their position as the only rightful rulers of America.