What did you do with your majorities?

So, what did all that compassionate conservatism get us? The chart below is the tale of the tape.



Crikey! Those look like some actual surpluses in that (far-) righthand column.

This is what happens when you restrict budgetary growth to merely 4%/year vs. blowing out the stops as we did in the Oh-Nos.

A near decade’s worth of folly spent in the pursuit of conservative ends through statist means.

H/T: KT