Wrong move. The ‘Rats still control both houses of Congress. If our folks don’t compromise with them now, all they have to do is wait for the automatic tax increases next year—which the left would think is fine. Until the new congress (the folks who won in November, besides Senator Kirk who won a special election and was already sworn in), the ‘Rats just need to peal off two RINOs in the Senate and they can still pass anything they bloody well please.
Even after January, we don’t have veto-proof majorities, and will have to force Obama and the ‘Rat controlled Senate to do the right thing by holding funding for various and sundry things (HHS, DHS, EPA, . . .) hostage. No government shut-downs, just fund each agency in a separate bill, which contains relevant restrictions on government activities: the HHS funding bill contains the repeal of Obamacare, the DHS funding bill requires the TSA to abandon back-scatter x-rays and groping in favor of behavioral profiling, the EPA funding bill forbids the classification of CO2 as a pollutant or regulation of CO2 emissions, a bill funding the IRS audit division contains language making the Bush tax cuts permanent. . . . But all this happens after we control the House.
When your enemies are telling you how much you are winning.. you probably lost
The unemployment will stay at 2 yrs keeping the economy bad. States will start going under. SS will have a bigger deficit... The estate tax is back.