Your Daily Moment Of Campandering

Tim Pawlenty releases his tax cut plan.

Recently (like two hours ago) I said that I wondered if being a GOP Congressperson was a mental illness.

Now, we have Tim Pawlenty's tax plan to contend with.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/chart-of-the-day-tim-pawlentys-tax-cuts-are-bushs-on-steroids----lots-of-steroids.php?ref=fpa

Basically, he ends government as we know it.  He reduces taxes on the rich to Andrew Mellon levels and increases the budget deficit by $11,000,000,000,000 this decade alone.  In order to compensate for this, basically, you would have to end... well, everything.

I am waiting for David Brooks to explain to me how this is good Burkean conservatism.

Honestly, is there any reality left in the GOP?  Is there any line that a GOP candidate can cross that is too far?

Pawlenty's toast anyway after Mitt Romney mounted him on the debate stage the other night.

Is this a desperate last gambit from Pawlenty?  Or simply business as usual in the GOP nominating process?