Quotation of the Week

From this post at washingtonmonthly.com

Former Sen. Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican, reflected this week on his party’s refusal to even consider additional revenue as part of a debt-reduction deal.

“We’re at 15 percent revenue, and historically it’s been closer to 20 percent,” says Simpson. “We’ve never had a war without a tax, and now we’ve got two,” he says. “Absolute bullshit.”