Posted on 01/01/2013 5:52:20 AM PST by Perdogg
There are too many metaphors here applicable to the Senates 89-8 passage of a fiscal cliff bill in the middle of the night (around 2 a.m. this morning).
The bill raised taxes by over $600 billion, in addition to Obamacare taxes already coming on line, yet the Senators can claim it was a massive tax cut because the vote took place after midnight, so technically the Bush tax cuts already had expired.
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If your diagram is fully implemented here, the “outer party” will be the SEIU and some of the better-connected private sector unions.
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