Via Ace, even the Washington Post can’t help but respond with snark.

Democrats add fiscal austerity as a campaign issue

By Shailagh Murray

Friday, September 3, 2010; 9:03 PM

The candidate was outraged – just outraged – at the country’s sorry fiscal state.

“We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet,” he fumed to a roomful of voters. “In my view, we have nothing to show for it.”

And that was a Democrat, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who voted “yes” on the stimulus, the health-care overhaul, increased education funding and other costly bills Congress approved under his party’s control.

Faced with a potential wipeout in November’s midterm elections, candidates such as Bennet are embracing budget cuts with the enthusiasm of Reagan Republicans.

The guy who voted for the $787 billion stimulus package, government-run health care, costly entitlement programs, and massive federal education funding, now wants to talk about the need for fiscal restraint? Like I said, even the leftist Washington Post can’t help but snark in response. Democrats are now being mocked by their own allies.