There is telling folks that you believe in something and there is actually believing in something. As I've mentioned before,Congressional Republicans say that they are interested in the national debt and lowering deficits. They are not. Honestly, they don't give two shits about either of these topics in and of themselves. The sometimes care about them in relation to other items about which they actually care, but only care about them when they impact those areas.
Taxes, on the other hand, Congressional Republicans care a lot about. A lot. They will completely destroy the federal deficit if it means getting their way on taxes. And getting their way on taxes, by the way, will always increase the deficit. Always.
This post at TPM by Brian Beutler about the latest Republican efforts on the debt super committee illustrates this point handsomely. And the killer point about our society is that the press doesn't cover it and Americans don't care. I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg in that model, but either way, Democracy gets the middle digit.
