Continuing the lower tax rates only temporarily is hard enough to swallow. Why in the world would we want to offer them any “sweeteners”? Just let them vote it down as it was negotiated between the WH and the GOP and let them look like idiots when their forced to accept a worse deal (in their eyes) come Jan. We have to play hardball with these clowns.
“Continuing the lower tax rates only temporarily is hard enough to swallow. Why in the world would we want to offer them any “sweeteners”? Just let them vote it down as it was negotiated between the WH and the GOP and let them look like idiots when their forced to accept a worse deal (in their eyes) come Jan. We have to play hardball with these clowns.”
Exactly.
And if the Dems reject, start over at the new year from a position of strength. The only reason the Repubs (the non-Tea Party Repubs, that is) won in Congress was because they said “No” to garbage- not because of any unique talent that they had. We are at the edge of the cliff: saying “Yes” now to this could very well doom the party.