Will see. Obama came out on the attack again today. New strategy is to drop demands for tax rates to increase and instead demand Republicans remove a few targeted tax breaks, ones that wont generate much revenue but have been politically poll tested and focus grouped to be toxic to defend.
New terminology : It's not increasing ‘taxes’ it's increasing ‘revenue’, they are not ‘making’ them pay the higher taxes, they are ‘asking’ them to. It's not ‘taxes’ it's ‘subsidies’ and ‘loopholes’. This is how the the game is played.
On the other hand it was speculated that House Republicans will wait till the deadline and then pass a bill with NO tax increases but with all the cuts that Biden agreed to in principle and dare them to block it in Senate or to veto it.
And naturally Democrats will keep the Ryan plan alive until November 2012,
I think you will understand that I am concerned about the possibility of President Romney (or some other amnesty opportunist), working together with Graham, McCain, etc. to legalize people who will vote overwhelmingly left. So-called Republicans who seek Hispanic votes in trade for a “path to citizenship” would have enough power and money to buy votes in a corrupt future in which conservative voters have little power, but IMO the rest of us would be out of luck.
McCain and company seem to fight amnesty in Dem administrations, but they are only too happy to help when it’s a GOP administration. As some FReepers argue, it’s bad when Obama does it but good when GWB does it.
I am hoping that, even if Romney becomes POTUS, his election would keep the House in GOP hands, because I don’t know if GOP senators would stop amnesty again.