Love hate comes with leadership. That is why very few want it, take it and are willing to live with it. :)
In this case on taxes Republicans boxed themselves into a certain losing position. They accepted the terminology that a tax cut extension like the one that will pass tonight was a tax increase, terminology that Dems were happy to use to trap them.
So they ended up opposing a tax cut by calling it a tax increase, even though they (most) knew they would be blamed for the tax increase if nothing was signed into law. They had to make believe that taxes would not go up automatically, a sure losing position.
Many times last year I posted here that if O wins the election he will not give in on the upper tax rates. He had no reason to, public opinion was with him and he had no more elections to worry about.
I said they should have passed the partial tax cut extension weeks ago and moved on to the next fight. I warned that dragging out this fight over nothing would do nothing to help them(Rs) and will only help O.
I dread the ‘immigration reform’ fight. Thank goodness there is no immigration cliff deadline.