The GOP "at odds" with reality? Seems that way, or at least it does to me, you, the sentient universe and Politico's headline writer: "Cuts-only approach at odds with data."
It's not as though this is some sort of seismic scoop, but the pertinent facts are:
[A] new Congressional Budget Office report Tuesday shows that government spending flat-lined in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 — leading to a modest dip in the deficit....
It’s a turning point for which Republicans can take some credit. But the data highlights what’s also become the great arithmetic lesson for the GOP: Even if spending were frozen in place, the nation’s debt keeps piling up, absent more structural benefit reforms and tax revenue.
Nonetheless, tonight, at CNBC's Republican presidential mutual-agreement forum, said wannabes will vomit the "cuts-only approach" with undifferentiated regularity -- even the two who know far better, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman. Because their party is mad, quite mad.