Remember that GOP debate earlier this year when all of the presidential candidates said they wouldn't agree to raising $1 in taxes if they could get $10 in budget cuts? It was taken by Democrats as a manifestation of how the Republican party's zealous stance against tax increases of any sort precludes a bipartisan deal on the federal budget deficit.
Many pundits postulated that once the general election campaign got underway, the GOP nominee would moderate that stance to woo independents.
Not Mitt Romney.
In his first non-Fox television Sunday morning appearance, Romney told CBS' Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation that "the only solution to taming an out-of-control spending government is to cut spending. And my policies reduce the rate of spending, bring government expenses from 25 percent, federal expenses, from 25 percent of the economy down to 20 percent and ignite growth of our economy."
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.