Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was right to identify entitlements as a big threat to our nation’s fiscal health, but it’s hard to take his words seriously given Republicans’ inaction on tackling spending.

“There’s been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs,” McConnell said on Tuesday talking about the increase in the federal deficit. “Hopefully at some point here, we’ll get serious about this. We haven’t been yet.”