[okie01]

Let the tax rates rise if necessary, since I have no doubt they will be moving back down once the next Congress convenes.

The Bush tax cuts -- or any new tax cuts -- aren't going to gete enacted unless there is a deal of some sort.

Come the next Congress, Democrats still have a majority in the Senate and the President still has a veto. The GOP House can pass all the bills they want. But, for them to become law, the Republicans will have to make deals.

If the GOP is to do the best thing for the economy and the country, they need to fight against any tax increases. Which means making a deal of some kind -- hopefully not an overly painful one.

[Pox]

My point is timing. If they enact the extension now, the lame duck congress will move to the rest of their liberal agenda, which is much worse for the country over the long haul than “putting off” the tax issues until this lame duck congress is gone.

Whether it is accomplished now or the next session is really not much difference, IMO. If it can get down now, it can also get done then, and in either case, the dems are in a no win situation and really have no other choice but to cave in.

My concern is letting them continue pushing through the rest of their agenda before the House is controlled by Republicans. At that point, the liberal agenda should be DOA.

One could make the case that the reason Obama and the marxists are so easily “caving” at this point in time to the tax issue is to insure the rest of their agenda is pushed through in the next two weeks.