Big Spender

The hypocrisy of the GOP on deficit issues is manifest - most especially given their "Starve the Beast" tax-cut ideology over 30 years that deliberately underfunded government in order to create the kind of "deficit crisis" that they are currently using in their arsenal of shameless demagogy to kill government programs.  What is often less apparent is their big-spending hypocrisy.

Newt and the Mistress Missus

Current Presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich - who has unleashed the "big spender" attack on President Obama (actually one of his least obnoxious assertions about the President, but let's leave the pure nutso stuff like "Kenyan Socialist" out of this, if only to control my blood pressure) - is a case in point. Think Progress has the goods on this disingenuous character, whose combination of grotesque pretensions, egomania and lack of self-awareness rival perhaps only Donald Trump's in the GOP's "Presidential" over-stuffed Clown Car of wannabe candidates:

(A)s Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990′s, he himself was one of the most avid big spenders in the entire country, using government cash to enrich his district and lift it up to being one of the wealthiest in the country.
During his tenure in Congress, Gingrich represented large portions of Cobb County, Georgia. Cobb was a mostly-white district and largely suburban — completely different from the crude stereotypes Gingrich and others used to blast the welfare state, which were generally portrayed as minority-heavy urban environments. At the same time Gingrich was working with President Bill Clinton to cut back on spending for programs for the poorest Americans, Gingrich made Cobb one of the most subsidized districts in the entire country.
A 1996 article from New York Magazine notes this:

[Gingrich] represents Cobb County, a prosperous jurisdiction that ranks third among suburban counties in federal dollars returned per resident. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the federal government spent $4.4 billion in Cobb County in 1994, some $10,000 per resident, or nearly twice as much per capita as it spent in New York City.