T.S. Eliot's 1925 poem, The Hollow Men, says "the way the world ends" is "not with a bang, but a whimper." If Eliot were writing today, the hollow men might be America's conservative ideologues, the world that of the national anti-tax movement, and the whimper the one barely heard on September 12, 2007.

That day, Roll Call, the tiny-circulation Washington newspaper, reported that Republican senators were fretting about "new polling data showing tax cuts are no ...

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