Today's Factoid: Fiscal Integrity among the Weasels

The argumentative among us might like to comment this to memory (link):

Let's pick ten Republican or near-Republican senators typically called "moderates" (some of whom have retired since 2003): Collins, Domenici, Grassley, Gregg, Hatch, Snowe, Specter, Voinovich, Nelson, and Lincoln. Only two of them (Blanche Lincoln and Judd Gregg) opposed the unfunded Medicare Part D. Only one of them (Olympia Snowe) opposed the 2003 tax cut, even though it was very clear at the time that permanent (as opposed to temporary recession-fighting) tax cuts were the last thing that America needed. And none of them opposed the 2001 tax cut--even though Alan Greenspan was at the time wandering around Capitol Hill whispering that it was bad policy, and that we were very likely to rue the day it had passed.

To my own surprise, this actually makes me think a bit more highly of Blanche Lincoln and Judd ("Acne") Gregg. And of course, an idea has a truth-value that is independent of the character of the lying, hypocritical weasel who endorses it. But when these guy tell you they've always been deficit hawks, keep this list in mind.