Now I understand why thet were spinning this as a Tea Party victory. They knew this was coming and planned to blame the TP.
Dear God, you're right.
'bam wants a tax hike and this is how he'll get it.
Once again the Republicans were suckered.
Here's where 'bam has a huge advantage over us: the dems, in addition to their brigand mentality, are mathematically illiterate. Abstract ideas are meaningless to them. Free market economic theory depends on abstract reasoning, brigandry doesn't.
Dems put great stock in words. They're pretty clever with them, knowing that without words no one can lie.
Most Americans are mathematically illiterate; their eyes glaze over when confronted with technical arguments, especially when numbers are mentioned. Simple quasi-moral stories and word-piles appeal to them.
There's only one way Republicans will be able to explain things to this country: with pictures. By pictures, I mean graphics and charts. And they'd better be clear, punchy and pretty. There's a lot of visual noise out there.