If this is the heart and soul of the Republican party, there’s a problem.
“It is a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party: Is it a party about deficit reduction or a party about tax cuts?” said Stanley Collender, a budget expert at Financial Dynamics, a business communications firm in Washington.
And the correct answer, by the way, is “cut spending”.
UPDATE: Oh, look! Jonah agrees with me. He says it better, naturally.
Not So Fast 