The difference in being a minority party...

Now, let me get this straight. When in power, during a boom, Republicans were more than happy to run up huge (record setting) deficits, almost doubling the national debt from $5.8 trillion to $10.7 trillion, by giving huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, but now that there's a crisis, they've decided they're against deficit spending?

(A nice AP "analysis" piece.... with quotes.)