GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT]: "[T]he past couple of years have demonstrated, in a fashion hard to miss, that no matter what politicians promise, new government spending seems, somehow, to wind up in the pockets of politicians' cronies. So when 'new revenues' are sold as 'investments in the community', voters hear instead 'taking my money to give it to your buddies and buy votes'. Not surprisingly, this doesn't sell."

Read it all at the Washington Examiner.