They did? The Fiscal Conservatives ranted and RAVED against the government bailouts and pushed back whereever and whenever they could on the matter. That was the original motive behind the Tea Party movement after all.
But there's only so much they can do when they're part of the party that is out of power at the time. The bank bailouts you're somehow blaming on the fiscal conservatives were passed in
in 2008. FFS, do you know what the congressional makeup was in 2008? The House was 235 Democrats to 199 Republican, and the Senate was, functionally, 51 Democrats to 49 Republicans. Meaning that Fiscal Conservatives
HAD NO ABILITY to tell the banks to sit and spin, but had they had the power, they would have. And while it was the last year Republican George W. Bush was President, nobody had ever called George W. Bush a fiscal conservative. In point of fact, his entire underlying ideology, "Compassionate Conservatism" in many respects REJECTED the entire idea of fiscal conservatism.