[oldbrowser]

Once again we the people have been treated to a dog and pony show of last minute brinkmanship with both sides fighting valiantly for their ideals.

I have been watching the stock market and it seems that the investors knew since Thursday how this would turn out.
I guess we all knew. In the end both sides agreed to raise taxes now and deal with the spending problem later.

[Happy Rain]

The House TEA Party caucus is going to demand “tax cuts” for EVERYBODY or else the Dems will have to help the RINOs (who will be primaried out on their asses in 2014) pass this Marxist monstrosity.

[Cyber Liberty]

Goodbye Bush tax cuts...Hello Obama tax cuts. Hooray for Obama the Great! </s>

[Hotlanta Mike]

The coming tax revolt of 2014 is going to dwarf the mid-term election success of the Tea Party from 2010.

[j_tull]

Britt Hume has been tweeting that line of crap all day long.

[CharlesWayneCT]

By that argument, the bush tax cuts weren’t really tax cuts at all — after all, Bush Sr. raised taxes, and Clinton raised them even more, so it was just the cowardly guys who did nothing more than reverse the legal tax increases in place at the time.

Of course, if you really want to take that argument to it’s logical conclusion, there has never been a tax cut, since before the 16th amendment was passed, there was no income tax at all. Ever since then, it’s just been cowardly people pretending to “cut taxes” when they are really simply voting for slightly smaller “tax increases” over the previous rate of 0%.

Would you rather we keep these new taxes for a couple of years? How many years do we have to suffer before we get to count a tax cut as a tax cut?