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To: Will88
A tie?

Really? What did the conservatives win? We held the line on a couple of things, but Obama won big elsewhere. All movement was to the left.

When the left doesn't get all it wants, it's not a tie. It's a win for them, just not as big as they wanted.

The R-(stupid)-party needs to drop the idea that holding the line is a win. Getting rid of the EPA or the Dept of Ed would be a win. Paying a trillion dollar ransom (in wasteful spending) for the current tax rates is not a win, or even a tie. We lost, by $1,000,000,000,000.

171 posted on 12/26/2010 1:09:26 PM PST by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: slowhandluke
A tie?

Really?

Yes, really. It was a tie during the lame duck session. Stopping that trillion dollar omnibus spending bill was a big defeat for Obama, no matter what the MSM and Krauthammer say. He'd vowed to end those Bush "tax cuts for the rich" since his 2008 campaign. But his own party turned against him and he had to give up and cut a deal.

And Obama still had his huge majority in the House and almost in the Senate, but he couldn't find enough votes to support repeal of the "tax cuts for the rich" even in the House. And he failed to get the Dream Act passed,.

He won two with help from the predictable RINOs in the Senate. But considering the huge majorities the Dims still had, it's silly to pretend that the Republicans could have prevented him from any wins at all during the lame duck session.

And it will always be a fight to keep the RINOs from crossing the aisle at times. In the new Congress, those RINOs in the Senate will have lost most of their ability to join with the Dims and pass anything the bulk of the Republicans oppose.

And just what was it that made up that "trillion dollar ransom"?

173 posted on 12/26/2010 6:29:29 PM PST by Will88
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