Ezra Klein:
This is pretty much the Republican Party in one tweet:
Today’s Republican Party thinks the key problem America faces is
out-of-control entitlement spending. But cutting entitlement spending is
unpopular and the GOP’s coalition relies heavily on seniors. And so
they don’t want to propose entitlement cuts. If possible, they’d even
like to attack President Obama for proposing entitlement cuts. But they
also want to see entitlements cut and will refuse to solve the fiscal
cliff or raise the debt ceiling unless there are entitlement cuts.
You can see why these negotiations aren’t going well.
