CNN Pushes: Should Republicans Have "Courage" to Hike Taxes?

Interviewing former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Reagan library on September 22, CNN’s John King recalled how former President George H.W. Bush “made an incredibly tough personal and political choice” to raise taxes. King touted how Bush “had the courage knowing it might cost him re-election.” King inquired: "Should Republicans learn from George H.W. Bush and sit down with the President and cut a deal?”

Cheney, no surprise, didn’t agree: "I think the notion of a big tax increase now, whatever the guise or the rationale, is exactly the wrong thing to do in the midst of one of the worst recessions we've had in modern times."