There They Go Again: Supercommittee Democrats Push for Tax Hikes

Senate Democrats on the congressional supercommittee are eyeing $1.3 billion in tax increases as a way to narrow the federal deficit.

Charged with trimming government borrowing by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade, the bipartisan panel is looking at a variety of cuts. But despite repeated congressional opposition to tax increases, the Democrats on the committee can't get the idea out of their heads.

They also want to include up to $300 billion in new "stimulus" spending sought by President Obama.

The Democrats' stubbornness -- it's not for nothing that the jackass is their mascot -- will almost surely gridlock the committee, just as they have logjammed Congress. But if the tax-and-spend agenda ever gets to a floor vote, Sen. Bill Nelson, for one, appears ready to say "yea."

Having voted to raise taxes more than 140 times during his two-term tenure, the Florida Democrat is already on record as saying he wants the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to expire.