Obama, Republicans reach deal to extend tax cuts, unemployment benefits

State-Controlled Washington Post ^ | Dec. 6 | By Comrade Shailagh Murray

[kabar]

The class card didn't work this time around, did it? The race card doesn't work anymore, does it?

The high rate of unemployment and the Tea Party are what worked. The Reps were the beneficiaries of the public's unrest, not because they had a better plan or program. If they continue to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, they will become a third party.

Otherwise, why would the Democrats and the President agree to it?

Obama was dealt a bad hand, but outsnookered the Reps to get a 13 month extension in unemployment benefits; extended many of his targetted tax cuts; got an increase in the estate tax; and will probably get the START treaty passed this session along with DADT and an outside shot a the DREAM Act. The Reps are still stuck with favoring tax cuts for the rich for the next two years.

The polls show that most Americans favor taxing the rich more. No matter how you wish to rephrase the question, you will get the same answer. 47% of Americans don't pay any income tax at all.

[Ron H.]

This round certainly seems to go to Obama. The GOP took it in the backside once again as they seem to like doing from the progressives. It would certainly appear that they just didn’t get the message the Tea Party sent them this last election. Time to continue thinning the ranks of the sickly stinking RINO’s and nauseating blue-bloods with McConnell leading that sickly pack!