Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, meanwhile said that he found it "baffling that the president and his party continue to insist on massive tax hikes in the middle of a jobs crisis." Those comments echoed many others made by key figures in both parties, as they posture to try get a deal that cuts into the nation's debt. "We, unfortunately, remain far apart because every time we get close the Republicans move the goal posts further to the right, further and further to the far right," Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, said Monday on CNN's "American Morning." On the same appareance, Rep. ... (full story)