4 Painful Political Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff Debates | Alternet

4 Painful Political Lessons from the Fiscal Cliff Debates | Alternet
"Republicans don’t care about deficit reduction.  They care about protecting the wealthy (I told you this is stuff we knew) which worsens the deficit.  Their talking points suggest they want to cut spending, reduce entitlement s and shrink government, but for the most part—there are notable exceptions*—they don’t have actual proposals to do so."