From Daily Kos, via Ezra Klein

The plan on the right adds $36 billion to the deficit in 2011. The party of fiscal responsibiity? My a**.Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, agrees:

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

Balance the budget, reduce the deficit, eliminate the national debt, but hey, give big tax breaks to our rich buddies (i.e., “our base”)!! Ain’t gonna work, guys.