Not an Awful Deal (if you like Marxism)

American Spectator ^ | Quin Hillyer

[Vince Ferrer]

Permanently

Or as the president has already said, until next year.

[RedMDer]

Happy New Year!!

[JRandomFreeper]

Looks like your liberals just caved.

Kiss your party goodbye. Because they left you without a kiss, a reach-around, or even any lubrication.

/johnny

[PhilCollins]

Here is the IL vote, on the fiscal cliff bill:
Democrats — Costello, Y; Davis, Y; Gutierrez, Y; Lipinski, Y; Quigley, Y; Rush, Y; Schakowsky, Y.

Republicans — Biggert, Y; Dold, Y; Hultgren, N; Johnson, Y; Kinzinger, Y; Manzullo, Y; Roskam, N; Schilling, N; Schock, Y; Shimkus, Y; Walsh, N.
Will any of those congressmen get fewer votes, in the 2014 primary, because of that vote?

[TheRightGuy]

Aaron?? I’m schocked.

[BillyBoy]

Good riddance to RINOs Biggert, Dold, and Tim Johnson. On the plus side, I don't think any of them will make a political "comeback".

Kinzinger, Manzullo, Schock, and Shimkus disappointed me. Kinzinger and Schock could probably use a primary challenge, they're too establishment friendly. I think the powers that be in Illinois are planning to run Schock for some statewide office in 2014 (probably as the fall guy against Durbin), so they can anoint Ray LaHood's son for his daddy's old seat. (meanwhile, Darin LaHood is playing the part of a good conservative state Senator UNTIL he gets a safe cushy Congressional seat for life)

Interesting that NONE of the Illinois RATs voted NO on the "compromise". That tells me all I need to know about the supposedly "good" concessions that the GOP got. If there anything remotely good for the GOP in this bill, at least some of the Marxists would have opposed it.

[Impy]

Schock isn’t stupid enough to waste his time running for the Senate.

He may run for Governor.

[Lancey Howard]

There is a group of GOP shills running around FR, trying to justify caving to the socialists.

All I've seen from you is gripe gripe gripe.

With the rats running the Senate AND the White House, what would have been your ideal, realistic outcome from these negotiations? What could have been the final outcome if YOU were the Speaker? It's one thing to gripe gripe gripe and it's another thing to opine exactly what you think COULD have been a better, realstic outcome. Let's hear it. And don't forget the "realistic" caveat.

Thanks.

[Lancey Howard]

And in retrospect, his “Plan B” would have been a better solution than we are faced with today.

This is about the only part of the column I disagree with. Plan B would have been passed before the Bush tax cuts expired and therefore would have given the rats legitimate claim to smugly say the Republicans agreed with them to raise taxes on "the rich".

The fact that the final deal happened AFTER the expiration of the Bush tax cuts - - the rates returned to Clinton-era rates on New Years day - - means that there were actually nothing but tax CUTS in the legislation. And rather than the rats being able to claim that the Republicans agreed with them to raise taxes on "the rich", now the Republicans can legitinately claim that the rats are the ones who engage in class warfare and want only to "soak the rich", etc.

It may seem like a matter of petty semantics, but in the blood war known as politics there is no such thing as petty semantics. Now, any future TV ad that claims the Republicans raised taxes will be easily discredited as a lie. Had Plan B passed, such an ad would be legitimate - - slimy, perhaps, but technically accurate.