In light of Bobby Jindal’s emphasis on responsibility in American culture, I found this piece in The Weekly Standard an enlightening read for its emphasis on fiscal temperance:

Congress is like a whiskey drinker,” President Lyndon Johnson once observed. “You can put an awful lot of whiskey into a man if you just let him sip it,” he said. “But if you try to force the whole bottle down his throat at one time, he’ll throw it up.”

The 36th president and former Senate majority leader was referring to Congress’s ability to produce legislative outcomes — too much activity inebriates the system. Congressional Democrats learned the hard way this week as the bloated economic stimulus bill stalled in the Senate. Moderation in all things–including the speed with which they grow the federal government–is a virtue. The problem is House Democrats just didn’t have the temperance to just say no.

That lack of self-restraint is now producing political headaches. After eight years of bumping heads with a Republican president, many liberals in Congress believe voters just gave them the keys to the spending liquor cabinet …