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.
Now that is a good strategy that I was thinking my self. That is the irony of the waves of these talking point public opinion battles.
The Debt limit battle as we have seen is very dangerous for either side, but this time Rs can say on TV of course “We gave in on raising taxes and got NO spending cuts in return , so now its time for a fair and balanced approach. Now come on Mr President you cant always have it your way. ”
Its not foolproof (and we sure have fools) , but its a MUCH better argument than Rs had in 2011.