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I appreciate your spin on the President's successful compromises. It doesn't explain the unwillingness to compromise here. It looks to me like the Republicans didn't want to pass a repeal of the estate tax. They wanted to offer a bill that the Dems wouldn't accept, in order to make it an issue. Posturing. It might make strategic sense. I am sure they have better polling data than I have, but let's not delude ourselves here on the sidelines. It doesn't take a PhD to recognize political posturing like this.

Most Republicans *did* want to make the repeal of the death tax permanent. The vote was something like 54-44. Remember that the GOP does not have a majority in the Senate. dashle is making them go for the 60 vote anti-filibuster on everything.
With a minority in the Senate, they really can't overcome daschle. We really should all vote for GOP Senators this year - even the worst GOP Senator will get control away from the nastiness of dashle!