...but I grasp your point completely.

Maybe he's hiding his face in shame, but I personally think that Jon Kyl - the Arizona senator with a mighty suspicious shortage of letters in his name - is probably just playing peek-a-boo. Because any GOP deficit hawk who had worked as hard as he has to prevent the 35 billion dollar extension of unemployment benefits because it has insufficient offsets surely couldn't support continuing the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250K a year unless... Oh, forget it. He has no shame. "You should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes. Surely Congress has the authority and it would be right, if we decide we want to cut taxes to spur the economy, not to have to raise taxes in order to offset those costs. You do need to offset the cost of increased spending. And that's what Republicans object to. But you should never have to offset cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans." - Kyl, 7/11/10 "You should never raise taxes in order to cut taxes"? That's a non sequitur, Senator. But "you should never have to offset cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans."? That's a motto! Peek-a-boo!