I hear that a lot. I may have said it. I read it here, in this thestreet.com piece, which also says:

Voters want a clear plan to balance the budget and create decent jobs, and to win their confidence one or the other party must come clean about what that takes.
Spending is more the problem than taxes — Congress has no self-discipline.
In 2012, after most stimulus money is spent and the economy is three years into the recovery, the Office of Management and Budget estimates the deficit will stand at about $829 billion. Spending will be 23.2% of gross domestic product compared with 19.6% in 2007, the last year before the Great Recession. The difference comes to $535 billion — more than half the budget gap — caused by new, permanent extravagance.
We don’t have to look far for solutions as unpalatable as those may be.
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are more than 40% of federal spending. Nothing gets fixed without fixing old-age pensions and skyrocketing health care costs.
Simply, Americans live longer. Without increasing the retirement age to 70 seniors will sooner or later get disappointed when the federal government can’t pay what has been promised.
Americans pay 50% more for medical care than do the Germans — the United States spends 19% of GDP, while Germany, Holland and others, with healthier populations, spend about 12%.
Americans do get the privilege of paying more for drugs, doctors and health insurance executives, an army of claims bureaucrats that mindlessly harass, and get to wait three weeks to see an urologist, orthopedist or other specialist, just like the Europeans and Canadians.
President Obama’s health care reforms were supposed to fix all that but now premiums and drug prices are jumping and small businesses are shopping for cut-rate insurance policies that will further limit the choice of doctors and jack up co-pays.
It is high time to get serious about aligning prices in the United States to what Europeans pay, reforming the claims process and stop treating the health insurance industry like Europe’s displaced landed aristocracy. That would require politicians to stand up to big contributors to their election campaigns.
I won’t mention tort lawyers — that is more than “progressives” can consider.
To grow, prosper and create jobs, Americans must stop viewing international commerce through a child’s eye — it is not about the virtues of free trade vs. protectionism but combating economic aggression that threatens to destroy Western prosperity and institutions.

Who seems to be working through these things? Paul Ryan? The Republican Study Committee? Does it sound like a platform Mitt Romney would be at home with? Yes, Republicans have their problems. Yes, Republicans have to know the pressure is on and they must deliver. But we’ve seen Democrats in power and we know what they believe, what’s motivating them. Which party is more liable to confront these things? Which side is liable to listen to Ramesh Ponnuru and Yuval Levin and other smart conservative policy minds who love freedom and responsibility?

I don’t even know that it’s the lesser of two evils at a time like this. But please correct me if I am wrong.