Whenever you read conservatives trying to critique what they think the other side believes, you find them assuming that their opponents must be mirror images of themselves. The right believes that less government spending is always good, regardless of circumstances, so it assumes that the other side must always favor more government spending. The right says that deficits are always evil (unless they’re caused by tax cuts), so they assume that the center-left must favor deficits in all conditions.
From The Cracked Conservative Mirror – NYTimes.com
GOP strategy is to find a policy that failed, declare it Keynesian and therefore proof that Keynes was wrong.
