Nearly a decade after the advent of the Tea Party movement and two years into total Republican control of the federal government, fiscal irresponsibility still threatens to wreak havoc on our national economy and security. Our national deficit still accelerates at a pace quickly growing out of control. Our national debt clocks in at nearly $180,000 per tax payer and over $21 trillion in total. Within the next decade, our debt is projected to equal our GDP, and within the next five years, the cost of interest on our national debt — which is about to cost as much as our Medicaid spending — will surpass our defense spending.

Naturally, progressive Democrats want to nuke one of the last remaining restrictions mandating federal fiscal responsibility with the new rules governing the 116th Congress.

Returning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants to upend the restriction requiring that spending increases be met with spending cuts elsewhere, colloquially deemed "CUTGO," and return to a weak version of the rule. Pelosi's preferred "PAYGO," which Democrats employed during their last majority, requires that deficit-increasing measures be met with spending cuts or revenue increases (read: tax, tax, tax!).

The tax-and-spend-into-oblivion ethos leading the Democratic establishment should terrify the masses enough, but now the far-left of the party has begun to throw a tantrum to go full fantasy-land on our deficit.

"I will be voting NO on the Rules package with #PayGo," wrote Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on Twitter. "It is terrible economics. The austerians were wrong about the Great Recession and Great Depression." (They weren't. Exhibit A: Greece, circa 2009.)

"PAYGO isn't only bad economics, as @RoKhanna explains," incoming congresswoman and social media influencer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added. "It's also a dark political maneuver designed to hamstring progress on healthcare+other leg[islation]. We shouldn't hinder ourselves from the start."

You mean we shouldn't try to pay for stuff with money instead of your hopes and dreams? You mean we should just give out free stuff until Santa comes around to keep us from defaulting on our national debt? You mean rules are bad?

Between the botched Syria announcement, Trump's trigger-happy tweeting, tariffs, market slides, and white House legal woes, it's been a bad few weeks for Republicans. Heck, if you consider the amount of broken promises of fiscal responsibility, spending cuts, and deficit reduction, it's been an egregious few years for Republicans.

But you can always trust a Democrat with a pocket full of taxpayer cash and a heart full of big government dreams to remind you why you keep on voting for the slightly less catastrophic party.