Simple. Protect 99.8% of tax payers from expiring Bush tax cuts. Period.
Do you recall Bush’s “Read my lips, no new taxes”?
And do you recall what happened to him?
How much better off will you be with all of those Tea Party conservatives replaced by dims?
When people of character shake your hand and tell you that it is a deal, there is no more discussion about whether or how it is to be a deal. It is a done deal.
Whether it is a good strategic move to change the deal is not even a matter for discussion. It is a deal.
What you and boner suggest is that all of those conservative house members should take the attitude of the GA senator who says that its a promise made years ago and it is OK to go back on it.
Not for those who have ethics. Its called character.
There are no more Patrick Henrys.
Only Henriettas.