[Bigtigermike]

Ok....what do you think?

[Nonstatist]

Cripes.

[BenLurkin]

Taxed Enough Already

[DLfromthedesert]

He’s toast. First, the GOP should focus on fiscal issues and table social issues.

Then, fiscal issues means raise taxes? He is not a social conservative, and now evidently he’s not a fiscal conservative.

[Lakeshark]

Steerike threeee!!!!!!!

He's outta there......

[funfan]

I say NO—cut spending please

[RachelFaith]

Can someone PLEAAAAAASE, toss this nincompoop under the bus... then back over him a dozen times... just to be sure.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, we could raise taxes, OR we could cut spending ...

It's always so tough to figure out which way the politicians will decide to go ...

[Al B.]

Groan, but he’s a darling in DC. Figures.

[smug]

Bye, Bye, Presidential possibilities.

[hinckley buzzard]

If he can cut spending in Indiana he can cut spending in Washington. According to this article all he is thinking of is ways to suck more money out of me and my kids.

[Oceander]

Nonsense on stilts. At the end of the day, it may be that, hypothetically speaking, we will have to raise taxes; however, there are way too many other things we can do first before that possibility can even be considered, let alone put into place.

I'll certainly go along with reconsidering most or all of the social entitlements - which are, by the way, where most of the budget goes to these days, our military commitments pale in comparison to those, which is simply another reason why somebody who wants to lead with a reconsideration of our military commitments first simply cannot be taken seriously.

Anyone who starts blathering on about raising taxes before they've actually managed to cut out the wasteful, uneconomic, economy-destroying, initiative-destroying social entitlement programs is nothing more than a neo-fascist mole.

[Tzimisce]

Do you realize our vacations are now only at half pay????

You greedy, worthless taxpayers need to open the spigot some more!

/sarc

[Pox]

How about immediately reducing the size and scope of the federal government first and foremost!

[ansel12]

Is that wild? YES! Just weird, wild stuff. YOU ARE CORRECT,SIR!

Governor Palin leads the opposition to this Rockefeller branch of the GOP.

[dalebert]

stop the spending....take back the spending...

[SandRat]

Oooops....Mitch has been hitting the

hard again.

[festusbanjo]

It’s not that we tax too little, but that we spend too much. In my house, we spend based on our income. The government, taxes based on what it spends. Can you imagine going to your boss and telling him that he needs to give you more of his money since you can’t be responsible with yours?

[libh8er]

We need a through cleansing of the GOP. Nov ‘10 would be just the beginning.

[Antoninus]

So let me see--this bum is calling for a "truce" on social issues, and is ok with tax hikes.

This guy is a Republican???

[Iron Munro]

Why do we constantly hear about the need to change Social Security but never hear about the need to cut the moochers’ and spongers’ off their government freebies and handouts?

Before politicians gut and/or change Social Security they should take all the able bodied baby machines, crack ho’s and crack sellers, pimps, immigrants, ALL ILLEGALS, and other moochers off public benefits, food stamps and medical care and kick them out of taxpayer paid housing.

These people pull down more than most retirees on Social Security and many (most) have never worked a day in their lives and make no effort at all to support themselves.

Social Security may need some reconfiguring but that should not be the first step toward reigning in costs. It should take place after the spongers and moochers are taken off the taxpayers’ backs.

At least retirees on Social Security have worked and paid something into the system.