If there's one thing to learn about how the government spends money, it is that a crisis (real or perceived) makes it easier to justify deficit spending to the voting public. The 9/11 tragedy made it easier to justify war spending and the financial crisis made it easier for the republicans to justify their 2008 economic stimulus checks and for the dems to justify their own stimulus package. Now that the Republicans are complaining about high unemployment, they are only making it easier for the Democrats to justify spending even more money in an attempt to save jobs!If the Republicans quit complaining about the latest crisis, the Democrats wouldn't be able to justify spending money to make the problem go away. If the Republicans really wanted to see government spending decrease, they would play along nicely. When people like Glenn Beck blow ***** out of proportion, they are just creating another perceived crisis for the Dems to "fix" with more tax money. The Republicans are in an awkward spot.If they don't criticize the Democrats, they could lose even more political power. If they do criticize the Dems, they risk encouraging the Dems to increase deficit spending (something they are guilty of themselves). They are basically damned if they do, and damned if they don't.