Fiscal responsibility? Wah?

This would be hilarious if I weren't doomed to pay for it for the rest of my working years:

On vote after vote in the House and Senate, lawmakers demonstrated the growing gap between their political promises to rein in spending and their need to respond to emergencies and protect politically popular programs. The votes followed last weekend's GOP leadership meeting in Memphis, at which virtually every speaker called on the party to renew its commitment to fiscal discipline and to control federal spending and the deficit.

You know what that says when you can't conscionably cut programs but don't have money to pay for them? It means you shouldn't have cut taxes.

You know what that says when you run on promises of fiscal prudence but end up increasing the debt ceiling by $781 billion instead? It means you're a liar.