Politics for Democrats: the limits of fiscal zealotry. (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, April, 2002 by Teixeira, Ruy
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PITY THE POOR DEMOCRATS. They thought they had discovered the perfect issue: "fiscal discipline." By draping themselves in the mantle of fiscal rectitude, Democrats discovered they could oppose tax cuts without advocating any specific government spending--thereby avoiding both the potentially controversial nature of any new outlay and the generic "Big Spender" label (as in "Democrats who just want to spend the taxpayers' money instead of letting them have some of it back").
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