“We have to have our citizens insured, and we’re not going to do that by tax exemptions, because the people that don’t have insurance aren’t paying taxes.”

That quote's from Mitt Romney, telling Rudy Giuliani why his plan to give tax deducations for buying health insurance won't solve the problem.

It came in Sunday's GOP presidential debate.

Maybe Romney could share that information with Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch and the Wisconsin Republicans who keep pretending that tax deductions for health savings accounts will solve the problem. Along with the free market, of course, which has worked so well to give everyone health care coverage in the past.

How low can he go?That's slightly better than Jeffrey Dahmer and a little worse than Ed Gien. Political Wire has the story on a new poll, which shows Giuliani and Clinton leading the presidential packs here.

President Bush's approval rating in Wisconsin is just 19%, with a stunning 73% disapproving of his job performance. Congressional approval is not much better at just 22%, with 68% disapproving.