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.
Yup, all those down-sides are there. But without the deal, all the tax rates would be up, and with the support of two RINOs they could have gotten most of that crap through anyway (certainly the unemployment extension).
Remember: Pelosi is still Speaker, they still have a 58-42 majority in the Senate, not 54-46, and the Clinton era tax rates and the even higher death tax (both in terms of less exclusion and higher rates) would have come back with no action by anyone.
This was a win. Not as big a win as we’d like, not as big a win as we need to push for once the GOP controls the House (and the power of the purse), but given the actual facts on the ground in D.C., right now, a win nonetheless.
Everyone quit whining and save your energy for holding your Congressman’s and Senator’s feet to the fire (esp. your Senator if he or she is a Republican, even a RINO) to block the odious legislation that’s the ‘Rats have stacked up behind this for rest of the lame duck session (the DREAM Act, repeal of DADT, and various other obnoxious bills that don’t get as much press). And save a little energy for pushing a take-no-prisoners attitude once the new Congress is sworn in.