Link here to Real Clear Politics.
Apparently that remains "in play": that we can get "there" from "here" without raising rates based on Congressional latest vote.
Voting with their feet.
Congress is taking off for a long weekend, and when we talk "long weekend," we are really talking long weekends. Their weekend is starting on a Wednesday, at noon. Pretty nice.
It must be a lot of fun negotiating with the President. He keeps changing his demands. The Republicans will go along with raising the rates on the top 2% and go home. The battle will come next year when the statutory debt ceiling is reached. The President has played with the Republicans like they are a bunch of nitwits. Let's see what happens in 2013.
ReplyDeleteAs long as he and the media paint the GOP as the obstructionists, he will just wait them out. The GOP will cave. He only needs a few GOP votes. This is all political theater. Actually this is the interesting thing: there are a lot of Dems that don't want to see increased tax rates; they are hoping there will be enough votes without them having to support the tax increase.
DeleteI'll write about the fiscal cliff; post about it, just like I write about and post about they Keystone, but like the Keystone, I have never cared how it plays out. I can't affect the outcome of either, so I'm just a spectator.