of course it's racism AND oh, now they're concerned about deficits

Two thoughts on political hypocrisy:

The Senate Democrats are denying Roland Burris his seat in the Senate. Of course, it's not racism. But by the usual criteria on the Left, of course, it must be racism.

It's already gotten weird, hearing Republicans complain about Obama's proposed deficit for the next budget year. Of course, (vocal) fiscal conservatives can rightfully complain-- since they complained about Bush as well. But there aren't very many of those.