Well, they only "win" until January where the Republicans who will then retroactively pass the Bush tax cuts to remain in effect.
It may result in more tax paperwork or the tax payers get refunded or a combination of the former and later. If that's the only cost we have to worry about, BUT we keep DADT, DREAM, START, and the odious Safety Food Act off the law books, then that is a good deal for us.
Furthermore to go along with my last post, the Dem infighting may result in a long delay that it does take 21 days to pass the Bush tax cuts to stay in effect. The long delay could keep the other bad Demo legislation from passing into law. This is the best case scenario.
No they won't. The US Senate is still in the control of the Democrats and they'll be able to cobble together enough votes to filibuster. They only need 41 to be successful, and they have 54 Democrat Senators.
And if they get that far, you can bet that Obama will be secretly cheering them on in the background.
And they can do a full-court media press designed to hurt the Republicans if the unemployment benefits are not extended.
This is not over yet if these house democrats get up a head of steam.
Come January, the Pubbies could certainly pass the Bush "tax cuts" (actually, maintain the same rates we have now) retroactively in the House. But it won't necessarily pass the 'Rat controlled Senate. And even if it did pass the Senate, there's a good chance that O would veto it, meaning a tax increase, and claim in his veto announcement that it doesn't include some of the provisions (e.g., unemployment benefits extension) supposedly agreed to in the "framework" he announced the other day.
Come January, the Pubbies could certainly pass the Bush "tax cuts" (actually, maintain the same rates we have now) retroactively in the House. But it won't necessarily pass the 'Rat controlled Senate. And even if it did pass the Senate, there's a good chance that O would veto it, meaning a tax increase, and claim in his veto announcement that it doesn't include some of the provisions (e.g., unemployment benefits extension) supposedly agreed to in the "framework" he announced the other day.