Raise Taxes, or Cut Defense?

Like a good Republican serving after President H.W. Bush’s disastrous no-new-taxes pledge, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) has never voted for a tax increase. He doesn’t plan on it either. But asked by Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake if he’d back tax increases to spare defense, here’s the House Armed Services Committee chairman’s highly qualified response: This is just me. This is probably a good way...