Hail DeMint!

DeMint comes out against tax deal, says GOP must do ‘better than this’

“ On both counts. I’m glad the President recognizes that tax increases hurt the economy. I mean, I guess that’s progress. But frankly, Hugh, most of us who ran this election said we were not going to vote for anything that increased the deficit. This does. It raises taxes, it raises the death tax. I don’t think we needed to negotiate that aspect of this thing away. I don’t think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point.   Hugh ... we don’t need a temporary economy, which means we don’t need a temporary tax rate. A permanent extension of our current tax rates would allow businesses to plan five and ten years in advance, and that’s how you build an economy. DeMint is right.  The path Republicans take here will define them in as being serious as hell, or face savers who settle for Pyhrric victories.  If they choose the latter, they can never rise above that mark.