Coming from Republicans, this is kind of startling:

As a conservative Republican, Lindsey Graham has never had a problem promising not to raise taxes. Like almost every other
Republican member of Congress, during his last re-election campaign, he signed the anti-tax pledge put forth by Grover Norquist's group Americans for Tax Reform.

But now Graham says the debt crisis is so severe that the tax pledge — which says no tax loopholes can be eliminated unless every dollar raised by closing loopholes goes to tax cuts -- has got to go.

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