The one thing I heard being bantered about by the repubs last night was an automatic increase in the corp rate after some number of years - not all the way back to a 35% top bracket necessarily.

These people, in positions of public trust, claiming to care about deficits only care about employing gimmicks to make already fuzzy projections into the future add up to some arbitrary number that they think isn't too bad. It's playing games to hit an arbitrary deadline rather than carefully considering their actions. Like, for example, how it enriches our heavily conflicted president.