A spokesman for House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp of Michigan declined to answer a direct question whether his boss will or won’t agree to consider tax hikes of any kind as a member of the debt-ceiling deal’s Super Congress joint committee.

Earlier today, I noted here that Reuters had quoted Camp saying that in his view as a member of the new panel “everything is on the table” and he doesn’t want “to rule anything in or out.” And I warned that such language is “Washington Wink-Wink” for justifying a tax hike.