While savaging Romney, Erick Erickson claimed that "Republicans on Capitol Hill are about to raise taxes on the American people with this Super Committee, but they’ll say they are just 'raising revenue,' not taxes." Weigel counters:
No, they won't, because no, they're not. … Democrats on the supercommittee have proposed $400 billion of cuts to Medicare as part of a supercommittee deal. The Gang of Six want to change the Consumer Price Indexing of Social Security in a manner that cuts benefits. The conservative line right now: Forget about that, because if you raise any taxes in any way, you're betraying the movement. The implication: Wait until 2013, when you can dislodge the New Deal without compromise.
In other debt committee news, TPM sees nothing but gridlock, and Chait rejects the GOP's leaked debt deal as unserious.
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