Chambliss Acknowledges Reality

Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), a member of the "gang of six" senators reportedly working on a bipartisan deficit reduction plan, makes a realistic critique of the Ryan proposal in Dana Milbank's Washington Post column.

But even mainstream conservatives such as Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), part of the Gang of Six, say the no-new-taxes Ryan plan is a nonstarter. “What he seeks to do is to, number one, balance the budget over about a 10-year period simply by reducing spending,” he said. “And you can’t do that. It’s not going to work."

--Ballard Burgher