I wonder if the Republicans would agree to raising the gas tax to pay for repairing our crumbling roads and bridges. It's been quite a few years since that tax covered what it was supposed to pay for - the rest is now coming from general revenues.

If the GOP can't even agree to THAT - then they are acting as though under a religious dogma. Every article says the GOP members of the cupercommitte will not agree to ANY tax increases of ANY kind.