Tax hikes are the wrong solution to the $13 trillion debt (Sen. Mitch McConnell)

Respectfully, I think this is a tough argument for the Democrat leadership in the House that won’t even take up the Senate’s version of the so-called doc fix legislation for no apparent reason other than the fact that it doesn’t increase the debt.

And it’s hard to imagine anyone taking advice on fiscal discipline from a party that’s spent the last two and a half weeks arguing not about how to pay for the extenders bill that’s on the floor, or how to use this bill to cut the debt, but about how much money to add to the debt in the process of passing it.

Here’s another idea Democrats should consider, one that Americans have been proposing loudly and clearly: stop spending money you don’t have.

The American people don’t think our problem is that government taxes too little. Our problem is that government taxes too much. And that it spends too much and borrows too much. And until Democrats demonstrate even the slightest ability to restrain the recklessness with which they spend Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars, the job creators and the workers of this country aren’t about to take them seriously on how to lower the debt. The American people shouldn’t be asked to pay the price for Democrats’ recklessness through higher taxes.

America faces a debt crisis. Democrats have done nothing whatsoever to show that they understand that. Breaking a campaign pledge won’t help. Cutting spending will.