If he wins re-election, domestic and foreign financial markets will know the fiscal recklessness will continue.
What emerged was partisan government and fiscal recklessness to match that of the President.
Continuing the trend of fiscal recklessness, President Obama's budget calls for spending that will add over $8.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
Accusations of fiscal recklessness might sink in and even appeal to some Democrats, at least the ones who complain about President Bush's half-trillion-dollar deficits.
Rather, the biggest risk may come from this administration's fiscal recklessness and the way this is putting us in hock to China.
In any case, Smith's own fiscal recklessness also contributed something to his ruin.
Democrats immediately pounced on the new report, saying it provided more evidence of Mr. Bush's fiscal recklessness.
He argued that Abbott's subsidy-based policy would be a "recipe for fiscal recklessness".
But the Administration's years of fiscal recklessness posed an unhappy choice.
Nevertheless, the two sides spent the day warring and accusing each other of fiscal recklessness and political duplicity.