I'm tending more and more to agree with the average Jon Stewart viewpoint, but this one missed the mark in my opinion. I think that it would be possible to believe that the Bush tax cuts should stay and believe that we need to work at cutting the deficit, while still remaining logically consistent. Yes, that money has to come from somewhere. No, it doesn't have to come exclusively from higher taxes.

Most of the clips of republicans shown here completely missed the point of fiscal conservatism, they are just in effect trolling for anything to criticize Obama about. But it would be possible to cut government spending, demand a higher standard of competition and reasonable prices for government funds being spent (which would hold for Bush's war profiteering cronies as much as it would hold for the "liberal elite" pet projects), and in general keep the list of "stuff we expect the government to do for us" smaller.

The lean, mean, and efficient approach to government is what initially sold me on republican ideology over the democrats methods. The problem now is that I don't think that the GOP / republican party actually want a small government any more than the democrats, they just want to toss their massive and inefficient budget in other directions. So by all means, criticize the republican talking heads for that, but don't sell me the line that there is a cut and dry "lower taxes = higher deficit, higher taxes = lower deficit" equation at work.

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