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Someone should define “compromise” in clear and succinct terms to John Boehner. That, in this instance, DEMOCRATS must make the move, before the Republican majority in the House makes the slightest stir.

Whatcha got, Bronco Bama? I mean, besides raising tax rates on the top bracket of taxpayers? Because if NOTHING is done, the top tax rate is going to INCREASE beginning in January, and you shall have what you want.

Of course, the tax rates on everybody else will go up sharply as well, especially for those in the lowest bracket. Take it or leave it, that is what is carved in stone now.

Game of chicken going on as we watch. Bronco Bama can bring Simpson-Bowles to the table, as the very minimum to begin negotiations, or he just as well should stay in the White Hut.

There was a scene in “Rebel Without a Cause”, where the James Dean character, Jim Stark, gets into a “chicken race” with another youngster in stolen vehicles, and the race is to see which bails out last as the edge of the quarry pit is approached. Young Stark rolls out of the door of his vehicle just a few yards before the edge, chuckling on the ground, and both cars plunge over.

The other young fellow got his sleeve caught in the door handle of his car as he tried to open the door, and unable to jump clear, he went over the edge.

So I suppose, in the code of this sort of challenge, he was the winner.

But you have to be a sociopath to subscribe to that code.