Buchanan to GOP: Ignore Hysteria, Be Firm on Taxes

Friday, 08 Jul 2011 01:23 PM
By Tom O'Connell

Conservative pundit Pat Buchanan has blunt words for the critics of Republican lawmakers’ resistance to accepting tax increases in exchange for a raising of the debt ceiling.

“The establishment is in a panic. It has been jolted awake to the realization that the GOP House, if it can summon the courage to use it, is holding a weapon that could enable it to bridle forever the federal monster that consumes 25 percent of gross domestic product,â€