Liberals responsible for cleaning up conservatives' fiscal mess ...

... sound familiar?

No, no, no, not in Washington - in Athens.

Prime Minister George Papandreou’s Socialist government inherited this debt crisis. Over the previous five years, the conservative government recklessly expanded public payrolls. That kept unemployment down but ruined public finances and forced Athens to borrow more and more to pay the rising wage and pension costs.

Let's hope the Greeks do a better job than Democrats in the states of reminding their people, every single day, just who created this mess.