[USALiberty]

A TEMPORARY extension of the tax cuts? TEMPORARY?

And MORE unemployment "benefits" to the chronically jobless? WTF?

The death tax STAYS?

MORE stimulus?

The GOP CAVED! This is NOT what we voted for?

This is a sell-out. The TEA PARTY IS WATCHING!

[Carl LaFong]

“Comrade Shailagh Murray “
LOL.

[ABQHispConservative]

The GOP could have held strong, but the RINOS no doubt had something to do here. I get the feeling that the moderates wanted to rush this through before the next congress. We’ll see how negotiations go when these benefits expire.

[EGPWS]

Say hello to another year of 10% unemployment.

[Williams]

This will save the typical family $3000 a year, and Obama made a career out of claiming the Bush tax cuts only favor the rich and should expire?

[IH8DEMS]

A TEMPORARY extension of the tax cuts? TEMPORARY?

And MORE unemployment “benefits” to the chronically jobless? WTF?

The death tax STAYS?

MORE stimulus?

Yikes sounds more like a stick up than a compromise.

[Cicero]

Very bad deal. 13 more months of unemployment is an awful lot. And a TWO YEAR extension means that it will come up for renewal again DURING OBAMA’s TIME IN OFFICE.

In fact, it will come up for renewal in the lame duck session of 2012, so if Obama has been replaced by a conservative Republican, he will still be able to veto a further extension. And he will not be around to suffer the consequences.

I didn’t think the Republican leadership was this dumb.

[The Cajun]

Don't see anything wrong with any of your statements, unfortunately.
I was expecting more of a fight by the Republicans.

[PalmettoMason]

I just popped in over at DU to see how they were taking the news.

Funny... they are saying almost the same things about their side. Almost word for word, except with A LOT more really, REALLY foul language. LOL.

[hondact200]

hold on 13 more months of unemployment benefits in addition to the already 99 weeks in effect. If I got this wrong no one scream at me that I did not read everything there. This is nuts, where is the incentive to work - sit at home and collect unemployelfare (unemployment and welfare) - $310 a week and just eat bon-bons. that is more than a person gets on social security disability, which is one payment a month that a person paid into for quite a few years. Unemployment does not include health insurance. But a person can apply for medical assistance and food stamps. More people on the government rolls. America is becoming like the former Eastern bloc countries paid to stay at home. Soon China and russia employees will surpass the Americans.

[Nachum]

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[depressed in 06]

Two years is a deal breaker. ‘12 will see a Bolshecratic Congress sabotage any more extensions, let alone permanence, leaving the next President with a disaster to cope with.

Unless, DumBO campaigns on make the tax cuts permanent, he will be a one termer. (While I don’t think he cares, his comrades do.) It will be a campaign issue.

[panaxanax]

>>”This is a sell-out. The TEA PARTY IS WATCHING!”<<

You’re damn right we are! Shake the dust off your DTOM signs.

It’s time to go huntin’ RINO’s.

[Fantasywriter]

If anybody wants to see how miserable the DUers are and how hard they have turned against Obama, here’s your thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9704341

[Logical me]

I wish that there would be an understanding that not much can be done even with the 2010 landslide. We do not have the Senate or the Presidency. It will be touch and go until 2012 and nothing will change that fact. To those that expect anything different are in a dream world. I would like total change but I have to live in the real world. America is still in trouble as long as we have a communists Administration and the communists in control of the Senate.

[Truth is a Weapon]

This is not a sell out. It puts the tax situation front and center in the 2012 election. The voters should be forced to choose what they want. The problem is that too many voters want non-reality. They want low taxes and lots of government spending.

The reality is that January 1 low income taxpayers were going to have a tax increase just like the higher tax brackets. Who knows which party they would blame the most? This was a good compromise. The goal is to win the war. Not every skirmish. The bottom line is that everyone’s income taxes stay the same for two more years. The estate tax compromise will be a lot less confiscatory than what was going to happen automatically on 1/1/11. When we increase the conservative majority next election we can further fix things.

[Rational Thought]

I honestly see this as more of a victory than a defeat. Tax rates unchanged, Obama admitting that tax cuts do indeed work (payroll deduction), and Obama having to go back on one of his big campaign promises. Nope, this looks like a victory for the American people (and our ideology) making Obama look bad to his own base in the process.

[Little Pharma]

This is not a bad deal. This is the lame duck session and the Dems still control all. This gives us 2 years to take the Senate, strengthen the House and makes tax cuts a viable issue for the 2012 race. Any time tax cuts is an issue, conservatives win big. It will be even bigger during a down economy.

Keep your powder dry, this is an opportunity to organize, not a reason to break ranks.

[VRWC For Truth]

NO DEALS! It’s cheaper not to extend the taxes. The GOP is dead.

[Cobra64]

What's up with this two year temporary crap?!

All of Bush's tax cuts should have been made permanent.

None of the unemployment benefits should have been extended.

I damn well hope all Conservatives remember this Republican sellout.

Does someone want to start a 2010-2011 RINO list?

[Breto]

Like I have said...anyone that trust the republicans is a fool