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From NRO’s The Corner:

…here’s a look at where Democrats stand heading into these votes.

Intransigent leadership:

* Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), the No. 2 Democrat, thinks anything more than the Democrats’ $6.5 billion in cuts over seven months would be literally impossible. “I think we’ve pushed this to the limit” he said on Fox News Sunday. “I’m willing to see more deficit reduction, but not out of domestic discretionary spending.”

* Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), as you may recall, berated the GOP’s initial plan to cut just $32 billion over the same period — roughly half way between where the two sides are currently — as “draconian” and a “non-starter.”

Tax more, spend more:

* Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D., N.J.) told reporters last week that Senate Democrats were “close to believing” that they had a plan for further spending cuts. Oh, but he did have one idea: “Show me the money, show me the revenue!”

* Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) concurred: “I’m greatly disappointed so far in what [the White House has] been advocating, which is basically sort of buying into ‘we’ve got to cut everything out of discretionary.’ The White House is wrong on that… To take revenues off the table is unacceptable.”

* House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif) has an equally ingenious plan to reduce the deficit — keep on spending: “Nothing brings more to the treasury than investing in education,” she told reporters last week…

They are still, after all this time, just tax and spend liberals. It is all they know – after all, they rose to power and wealth by taxing and spending, so why change? That literal national bankruptcy stares us in the face doesn’t matter…in fact, liberal talking points are shifting away from budget cuts and towards an insistence that we’re not broke and, indeed, should go on another spending spree.

It is already too late for us to get out of this without a great deal of pain. Democrats are talking up the $61 billion in cuts in the House plan as if it is just too much…that, in effect, people will die if we dare cut that much. Of course, $61 billion is actually a minute amount to cut given the overall size of government spending. It is, at most, a symbolic gesture that we will get serious about this. Democrats really want nothing to do with it – had they not lost the House in November, they’d be busy piling on another trillion or two in spending. Their folly has become so bad as to be malevolent in effect…they threaten the very existence of our nation at this moment.

Make no mistake about it – it will already be painful; it will already require very tight budgets and a lot of hard work to dig out of the mess we’re in…and the longer we put off fixing it, the worse it will get. Its the difference between starting now and risking 12% unemployment and putting it off until we are forced in to default, and having 50% unemployment, after a bout of hyper-inflation. It really is that serious. Republicans, by and large, are doing the right thing – Democrats aren’t; and so we must beat them resoundingly in 2012 – get rid of them, before they wreck everything.