by Jonathan Rauch and Patrick Appel
Bruce Bartlett has the chart:
Bruce could have also pointed out that only a fourth of Republicans want to reduce the deficit with spending cuts alone. Nate Silver goes there:
If we do take the Republicans’ no-new-taxes position literally, it isn’t surprising that the negotiations have broken down. Consider that, according to the Gallup poll, Republican voters want the deal to consist of 26 percent tax increases, and Democratic voters 46 percent — a gap of 20 percentage points. If Republicans in the House insist upon zero tax increases, there is a larger ideological gap between House Republicans and Republican voters than there is between Republican voters and Democratic ones.
The Dish 