A Good Sign

[Lord Jim]

The lop-sided margins by which the Tax Compromise package was passed (81-19 in the Senate, 271-148 in the House) gives me some reason to be optimistic about the course of Congressional-Executive relations in the next session of Congress....

If you look at the "nay" votes in both Houses, they draw both from the Uncompromising Left, and the Uncompromising Right.....

The good news is that the "Uncompromisers" on both sides, constitute nowhere near a majority

And they wont in the next Congress either....while there will be a few more Uncompromisers on the Right in the next Congress, (though this gets over played in the press...most of the new GOP Congressional Reps do not fall into that category, nor do most of the new GOP Senators) and the percentage of remaining Demo House members that are Uncompromisers will be higher than in the current one....

Those margins are so large that it strongly suggests that in those situations where The President and the GOP Congressional leaders are able to reach a compromise, they will be able to make the deal stick, regardless of what the Uncompromisers want. It also suggests that there is willingness on both sides to try to reach compromises.


This is good news for the country.

[Gob]

Ok.



Ermmmm....


If you say that's a good thing...


You may as well have been talking Stevese for all I understood it though..

[Lord Jim]

You may as well have been talking Stevese for all I understood it though..

For that remark, I shall meet you on The Field Of Honour sir.....

[rubato]

A back-of-the-envelope calculation says that our income will be > $10,000 more next year post-tax because of this stupidity.

Hey thanks! We can replace the BMW 2 years sooner! That 330xi will look nice in the driveway. Thanks to LJ!



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rubato

[Jarlaxle]

You are certainly free to mail the IRS a check for that extra $10,000 (or more) if you have such an objection to keeping your own money!

[quaddriver]

They wont keep it. At least not indefinitely. The code is pretty honest but not everyone wants their refund.

[Andrew D]

We were doing well with the federal budget under a Democratic President and a Republican Congress. Then the loony-fringers took over and pissed it all away. Let's hope that the upcoming Democratic President and half-Republican Congress can restore sanity.

[rubato]

We were doing well with the federal budget under a Democratic President and a Republican Congress. Then the loony-fringers took over and pissed it all away. Let's hope that the upcoming Democratic President and half-Republican Congress can restore sanity.

Its a hope.

If the extensions of the tax breaks for the rich and the SS tax cut are killed in 2 years I'll be much encouraged. My bad temper about the tax breaks for the rich is attenuated by the severity of the continuing economic crisis. I accept that the more urgent need is to pull out of the BushCo-created recession. It is still bitter to have suffered through 8 years of truly horrible government and still have to compromise with such pure corruption.

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rubato

[dgs49]

How typical of a left-wing, America-hating asshole: dream about how he can take found money to buy a German car.

What more needs to be said?