Why do people think that the Republicans have any credibility when it comes to fiscal matters?

I'm definitely right leaning on economic matters and the Republicans have been just as bad as the Democrats in fiscal matters over the course of my life time. Yet I still see posts in here everyday by people who somehow think that they Republican party is the party that will make the spending cuts that need to be made.|||The Republican and Democratic Parties care for no country or people, they only care for their party and how to make it more powerful.Read the news and you will see that only the Democrats think their party is corruption free and will work for the best interest of our country. Also in the news you will see that only the Republicans think their party is corruption free and will work for the best interest of our country. But if you read the history of the past 10 years or more neither party has done one thing good for the country but they have helped their parties. Both spend money like it was the water of the oceans. The best thing that could ever happen to this country would be the dissolving of these two parties.|||Probably because they are the only party even saying they will make cuts. I feel the same way, but the Democrats never promise cuts, and always promise to increase someone else's taxes. That's the problem in this country. A small number of people pay all of the bills, and the rest keep screaming for more government. When is it enough? Obviously never.|||The behavior is really quite normal. Usually what happens is when the people elect a Republican President, then the Democrats take over the house. And when a Democrat becomes President, then the Republicans take over the house.|||They've been worse if you ask me. The only modern president to balance the budget was Clinton. Reagan, Bush and Bush all exploded the debt, though a combination of unfunded tax cuts and unnecessary wars.|||Not just republicans. Liberal republicans. In other words, RINOs.|||Because for more than 100 years now every GOP caucus votes to spend only a FRACTION of what their Democrat peers do.