This won't embarrass deficit hawks, because they're not interested in the deficit. I think this piece was pretty informative on the ultra conservative worldview. The author points out that the creationist ethos is really one that's against what they see as the perverse morals of the 20th-21st centuries, and evolution and science have become proxies for their misplaced anger. I think that's the Tea Party viewpoint, too. Their world is crumbling with a black president, mandated healthcare, gay marriage at its highest support level ever, and now even women in combat service. "Spending" is code word for "freedom to do whatever one pleases at my expense, courtesy of the government." There is no way to convince them with evidence, because false or incomplete evidence isn't what led them to their position in the first place. Hopefully (and I never in a million years dreamed I would even think this, let alone say it), the party of Nixon will return one day, so that we can have a debate again.