Republi-CONs Are Not Serious About Deficits

UPDATE: "The often-used storyline that Republicans are desperate to balance America’s books is false, and so is the one about the GOP and the Democrats both being prisoners of their ideological extremes." Read The Daily Beast, The GOP’s False Fiscal Narrative.

"Not to steal Bill Maher’s schtick, but new rule: if you’re not willing to consider tax increases, you’re not serious about deficits. Full stop. Just as rigid pacifists aren’t credible on national defense and dogmatic Christian Scientists are rarely consulted on health-care policy, a politician who has made an ideological vow to refuse to even consider tax increases is not interested in reducing deficits -- and that’s true no matter how often they say the word 'deficits.'" Read the Washington Post, Has the GOP really taken taxes off the table?