[Wyatt's Torch]

With this move the GOP has handed Obama a huge victory. We get to go over the cliff and he gets his huge tax increases and cuts in defense sepnding. As a result we go into recession that he can blame on the recalcitrant Republican who wouldn’t raise taxes on millionaires. Nice work fellas!

[sefarkas]

... Republican who wouldn’t raise taxes on millionaires. Nice work fellas!

Mr. Torch, you are part of the problem. Arguments like yours are straight out Marxist class envy. What happened to equal protection under the law? Who picked one-million? Based on what analysis? One million on the AGI line in one year does not necessarily define wealth. As the top 5% pay about 50% of all income taxes collected, how fair is it to make them pay more? One of the early posters had it right, at least with the current legislation the federal government moves in the direction of matching income to spending. Reducing government spending leads to a recession -- that ought to tell you something right there.

[Qbert]

"With this move the GOP has handed Obama a huge victory. We get to go over the cliff and he gets his huge tax increases and cuts in defense sepnding. As a result we go into recession that he can blame on the recalcitrant Republican who wouldn’t raise taxes on millionaires. Nice work fellas!"

Sigh. If you paid any attention to what was really going on, you would realize that the Obamamedia was already gearing up in full gear to attack Plan B. Plan B wasn't a brilliant strategy move to catch an unwary Obama and the Dems off-guard, but a disguised "Right-wing wish-list" designed to "cut food stamps for the poor" and "raise taxes on the middle class", etc....

And after Obama would've repeated these talking points a billion times (without any counter-response from the GOP), the low-information crowd would be right in his corner. Stop being so naive.