The Senate passed the payroll tax cut that the house passed, only they made it for 2 months instead of 1 year.
All the basics were there though including a Keystone (which by the way, no one has ever come forward and nowhere can I find why the hell we need a damn pipeline across the whole of this country vs just building a damn refinery there in Montana!) decision.
BUT those silly Teapartiers insist they win the whole shebang. They just don’t get politics do they? They don’t care if they win their next election. Instead they are going to drag the country down with them – again – as they allow the Democrats to win because there is no way Republicans win if taxes go up on the middle class on January 1.
Well at least that’s the feeling from the Republicans.
I tend to understand that this country is not all right or all left and that some compromise is needed. That being the case, getting a copy of the GOP bill to pass for 2 months and then find EVEN more concessions might be ideal! Plus people like my sister get to have Christmas. And people like the rest of us know that at least we’ll have 2 months of similar paychecks vs reduced ones and can pay the Christmas bills.
But that’s me.
Even though everyone knows that the payroll tax cut is killing Social Security and extended unemployment benefits is in fact keeping people unemployed, there is still no way that regular Republicans would ever let taxes go up on the middle class January 1. That was the Democrats secret plan all along. I know that, you know that. It would be kind of funny that those Tea Partiers don’t seem to get that and are changing “politics” to brinksmanship except that Obama can not, just can not win the next election or this country will have gone over the brink.
Or not. I don’t know. Maybe those Tea Partiers are doing ok and doing what they promised. I was sore afraid last night, but today I’m a little more mixed.
1 I suspect that even the Democrats in the Senate realize the TeaPartiers are craaaazy.
How do you deal with crazy people?
2 Give them what they want especially when it’s what you want too.
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