The Democrat's Dilemma  John Campbell  7/2/2010 10:15:47 AM -
John Campbell I have been in elected office for 10 years now.
And of those 10 years, I have spent half of that time in the
California State Legislature and the other half here in
Congress. During that time, I have found that a common thread
exists amongst elected Democrats. At least part of the reason
they ran for and are in office now is to raise taxes on somebody
or everybody and then spend that money on people and programs
which they deem worthy. A fundamental tenet of the Democratic
Party today is that government should tax more and spend more on
lots of things.  But that ideology has just run headlong into
political reality. Polling shows that one of the top two issues
on the minds of Americans these days is the debt and the
deficit. The other big issue is jobs and the economy. And
Americans realize that the two are related. They understand that
our crushing debt burden, up 81% since Democrats took over
Congress in 2006, is one of the drags on