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As i mentioned with ezra klein earlier in the show, until last night there was a gang of six working on ideas to reduce the deficit in washington. now it is a gang not of six, but a gang of five because senator tom coburn of oklahoma quit. as "the washington post" put it, the group had appeared to be tantalizingly close to an agreement but then senator coburn started bringing up new issues at every meeting or demanding old ones be reconsidered. coburn began pressing for sharper cuts to social security that had previously been agreed to. during a three-hour session late monday, coburn demanded ...

Back for the sake of the deficit? >> to my knowledge, there is not one elected republican in the house or the senate who is saying that we should not extend the bush tax cuts, all of them, permanently or even that we should just not extend the bush tax cuts for upper income earners. it's worth going back through the numbers. if you look at every peace of policy we've enacted since 2001, since when we were looking at surpluses, when george w. bush was elected, the single piece of policy that has done the most to turn us from surplus to deficit were the tax cuts. much more than a trillion dollar...

>> to my knowledge, there is not one elected republican in the house or the senate who is saying that we should not extend the bush tax cuts, all of them, permanently or even that we should just not extend the bush tax cuts for upper income earners. it's worth going back through the numbers. if you look at every peace of policy we've enacted since 2001, since when we were looking at surpluses, when george w. bush was elected, the single piece of policy that has done the most to turn us from surplus to deficit were the tax cuts. much more than a trillion dollars. and what's really even more rem...

But that step, according to them is not even on the table. so i'm not saying republicans have to lead with tax cuts. that's not the argument. that's not what there a want or what they think is best and that's fair enough. but if you believe the deficit to be an overriding priority you have to be willing to put the single policy that did the most to bring us down to deficits, repealing it on to the table or letting it expire on to the table. and if not, and you are joking around with selling off ft. knox and selling off utah and liquidating whatever federal buildings we have, that may all be fi...

As i mentioned with ezra klein earlier in the show, until last night there was a gang of six working on ideas to reduce the deficit in washington. now it is a gang not of six, but a gang of five because senator tom coburn of oklahoma quit. as "the washington post" put it, the group had appeared to be tantalizingly close to an agreement but then senator coburn started bringing up new issues at every meeting or demanding old ones be reconsidered. coburn began pressing for sharper cuts to social security that had previously been agreed to. during a three-hour session late monday, coburn demanded ...