by Zack Beauchamp
Fallows gets very angry about GOP super-committee co-chair Jeb Hensarling's desire to let the payroll tax cut expire:
Through the artificial debt-ceiling "crisis," through the Moonie-like spectacle in Iowa of candidates (including Mr. Sanity, Jon Huntsman) raising hands to promise never to accept any tax increase, the Republican field has been absolutist and inflexible about not letting any revenue increase, in any form, be part of dealing with debts and deficits. Except, it now turns out, when the taxes are those (a) that weigh most heavily on the people who are already struggling, and (b) would have the most obvious "job-killing" effect if they went up.
Scott Galupo has had similar thoughts.
The Dish 