No I'm not for tax increases. I think Tom Coburn is not essentially for them either. The story is about the legislative impasse, and efforts to break it and pass some legislation to create conditions that will avoid a default on interest due on current U.S. Treasury notes; and its about a divided Congress with neither party a majority in both houses; and the truth about Mr. Coburn's tax preferences is in the details of dealing with that context. He knows that anything that gets passed will involve some compromise by the House majority and some by the Senate majority. That's not a policy preference, that's simply the way it is. I think that's where Coburn is coming from.
If you have a defeatist attitude, obviously your defeat is inevitable. I suppose many folks behind the iron curtain had your attitude back in 1985.