The Bar Is Indeed Low...

Joshua Green says that Jim Leach is a deficit hawk. The bar for Republicans to be "deficit hawks" is indeed low:

Pondering Orszag's Legacy: My dark horse candidate is Jim Leach, the former Republican congressman from Iowa, deficit hawk, and currently the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Putting a Republican like Leach in charge of OMB would be an intriguing move, since it would signal Obama's determination to cut the deficit and make it a bit harder for the GOP to...