…“The evidence is in, it’s time for everyone to admit that sensible tax cuts increase economic growth and add to the federal treasury.” Bush’s proposal, unveiled in his budget plan…

by Linda beale Proposals for Cutting the IRS Budget As the budget battles loom again in our dysfunctional Congress, one of the targets of the right is, not unexpectedly, funding…

…DeMint has essentially admitted that he never intended to stick with the sequester deal, saying that the GOP has “until next election to fix this thing.” GOP stalwarts want the…

…paying for all this now. Obama has spent more than $135 million — more than GOP challengers Romney and Rick Santorum combined — on his re-election apparatus, according to an…

Dan here…Linda Beale writes on the intent and passage of these bills. Whether the use of the payroll tax has political and budget consequences for people’s perceptions of Social Security…

This afternoon I received an email from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. What really stood out is that the NRSC has only one talking point: Vote GOP or Bush might…

…nearly $600 billion a year to the Federal debt. Update: Lawrence Kudlow in What I Learned This Week predicted: GOP Congress will pass a sizable tax- and budget-cutting fiscal plan…

Jacob Weisberg has an interesting discussion of how the GOP has failed to live up to its 1995 promise to downsize the Federal government. He points to a Cato paper…

How many times have we heard free lunch promises from the GOP – especially in regards the Social Security issue? Well, Edmund Andrews reads the fine print. It would seem…

Late posted, but still relevant: by Linda Beale The GOP Default Enthusiasts The New York Times has a story today about those in the GOP who don’t think the government…