Republican Ideology Means No Facts to Support It

From Jonathan Chait----The truth is, there is no serious economic support, anywhere, for the Republican position that deficit reduction must consist of 100% spending cuts, or that no deficit reduction is better than deficit reduction with any revenue component. Fred Barnes argues in the Weekly Standard that Obama was silly to demand revenue because "For Republicans, not raising taxes is foundational, primal." He meant this, of course, in a positive sense. A primal belief is not a belief that relies upon empirical support