They are saying that now anyway, on the Dem channel they are saying that Obama got Rs to help him raise taxes for the first time in 20 years and what a great victory it is.
And the Boo-hoo-hoo side who killed plan B are saying the same thing that Rs went along with a tax increase, so are those on talk radio fueling the fire making sure O and Dems look like the winners,
Defining only a 'partial extension of the expired Bush tax cuts' = 'tax increase' was to make sure that Republicans are seen to lose and O be seen to win. I think it was on purpose on both sides. Note that the new bill makes the tax cuts permanent, the expired one obviously never did.
With many I notice the purpose was not to get a better deal, the purpose seems to have been to blow up the economy out of spite because O won the election.
I read lots of comments mimicking talk radio saying “ The MSM will blame Republicans anyway so they should do the right thing”, and they mean kill any deal that keeps the rates from going up, while claiming they are voting against a tax increase, and let Rs get all the blame because 'they will anyway'.
You see how convenient that would be if it happened? You can hear it : “ Rs only got blamed because of the MSM and low information voters and would have anyway. ”
Only one problem is one main R would have got the blame for everyone's taxes going up and blowing up the economy, Bohner, and he didn't like that idea. Notice no one challenged him.
No.. The rats on the Democrat channel are lying? LMBO!!
But seriously, the only reason I can figure that the Republicans aren't clapping each other on the back and holding press conferences to laugh and brag about how they snookered the rats into helping them make 98% of the Bush tax cuts permanent without giving up a freaking thing is that they want to act down in the mouth and beaten so they can extract more spending concessions than they otherwise would during the next THREE upcoming "fiscal cliffs".
Maybe at the end of March, after the third "cliff" (the "continuing resolution") is settled, the Republicans will finally drop the act and party like no tomorrow.