Gene Taylor (D) represents a conservative district in Mississippi, and he apparently realizes that if Barack Obama’s agenda proves unpopular, he’ll be in the crosshairs in 2010:

Mississippi Democratic Rep. Gene Taylor blasted the budget outline President Obama submitted to Capitol Hill today, saying “I don’t like it…change is not running up even bigger deficits that George Bush did.”

“That’s what George Bush did very well. Apparently that’s what President Obama is doing.”

Taylor talks a good game. He voted against the stimulus, and he’ll probably vote against many of the individual elements of Obama’s budget when they come before Congress in bill form. But Taylor shouldered a share of the responsibility for the Obama deficits, and the Obama defense cuts, when he voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker. With that vote, the die was cast for big deficits, big spending, and defense cuts. Hopefully Taylor will have a vigorous opponent in 2010 who will remind his constituents of that fact.