Stupid Republican Platform

Let us agree that the national debt is a major problem.  It has been for my entire lifetime and it is getting worse.  Does one think that it can be handle in the term of  a single president?  Not likely!  There is no way to attack the debt without raising taxes.  Any consideration of attacking the national debt with just budget cuts is ludicrous.  That basic principle is spend less money and perhaps not grow the debt but it does nothing about the actual debt (which continues to grow whether we add to it or not).  The Republicans want to cut all the Democratic pork but do not seem to want to cut their own and the opposite holds as well.  Perhaps we should end the Bush tax cuts and earmark that money to strictly pay down the debt?