Add your reactionMitch McConnell, whose contempt for the middle class is so profound that it gives kleptocracy a bad name, has offered up another issue for voters to ponder over the next week: If the Republicans hold on to both houses of Congress, he suggested last week, the preferred GOP fix for the massive deficit created by their tax plan is to take a meat axe to Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid.
Maybe he didn't plan to say that out loud, but hardly anyone was surprised when he did.
In December, amid broad bipartisan tittering, the Senate Majority Leader asserted that the tax cut - which mostly benefited corporations and the richest Americans - would actually shrink the deficit.
