It's only a deficit when it's for you or me

Among other things, the new Republican majority in the House has redefined deficit spending.

For two years, Cantor and his colleagues campaigned against high deficits. Now, in the new majority's first major act, they plan to vote to increase the deficit by $143 billion as part of a repeal of health-care reform.

Dana Milbank at the Washington Post has a nice compilation of the ways Republicans redefine what they are doing when they go from election-mode to "governing"-mode.  (Quotes because I don't believe Republicans today have any idea how to govern.)

Here's another interesting one:

For two years, the Republican minority vowed to return power to the people. Now the House Republican majority is asking lobbyists which regulations to repeal, hiring lobbyists to key staff positions and hobnobbing with lobbyists at big-ticket Washington fundraisers.

However, in this paragraph I think Milbank is just doing what is apparently the obligatory dig at Democrats in any article that points out the failings of Republicans - this is what passes for "objectivity" these days in journalism.

Even before the speaker's gavel is passed at noon from Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner, it would appear that the Republicans are determined to form just as arrogant and overreaching a majority as the one they defeated.

Anyone who equates Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner should be ashamed of himself.