I fail to see where ANYTHING the republicans have done over the last 8 years can even come CLOSE to being called " responsible , " especially while nearly imploding our economy and then standing by and not doing ANYTHING to fix it , and then complaining when the democrats are FORCED to clean up the mess . " fiscal responsibility - That 's code for : " Start an unnecessary war , so that we can funnel TRILLIONS of dollars to politically connected companies , sapping the American middle class tax payers to pay for it , all . . .