Jodi Kantor’s New York Times profile of Obama OMB director Peter Orszag includes this bit of unjustified snark:

A former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Mr. Orszag is what passes in the Democratic Party for a deficit hawk.

“[W]hat passes in the Democratic Party for a deficit hawk”? Is Kantor aware of the fiscal policy record of Democratic and Republican presidents in the United States over the last 28 years? It’s not particularly favorable to the idea of Republicans as deficit hawks:

For her next story, I would encourage Kantor to seek out all the true deficit hawks in the GOP. I’m sure absolutely none of them supported President Bush’s massive deficit-enhancing tax cuts.