Democrats win key tax fights in emerging fiscal cliff deal as GOP defeated on multiple fronts

[NewsCenter28]

Sweet!

The emerging fiscal cliff deal is enough to leave Republicans with a major New Year’s hangover.

The package being negotiated by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Joe Biden amounts to a defeat for the GOP on multiple fronts.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/democrats-win-tax-fights-in-emerging-fiscal-cliff-deal-85625.html#ixzz2GgWF8uhe

But but but President Obama gave away the store according to DU and the GOP won a crushing victory over us!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. DU is like John Boehner, they "can't take yes for an answer". However, this still has to....

pass the House, and I still have my doubts about that.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. The key indicator: most of the complaints are about positioning for the next negotiation

Finding very little to criticize in the actual provisions (with the exception of the real "Tax EVERYBODY the MAX" wackadoos, of course, but they're not worse conversing with), the major quarrel now is that it supposedly "removes leverage" "unnecessarily" from the "next negotiation."

The second funny consistency from the opposition: while they think the GOP will be intent on screwing us in the sequestration (duh...), they are utterly convinced that the GOP will be forced by some mysterious public pressure to ultimately accept all the provisions of this deal and more should we go over the cliff. By some magic! Oh, don't worry about actually paying that extra $2500 or $4000 or $5500, middle class family! The GOP wouldn't dare vote against that AFTER the cliff!" This is magical thinking in the extreme.

So, complaints about the next deal, and assurances that the GOP would HAVE to deal on middle class taxes (and UI, and child tax credits, and stimulus credits, and etc., etc.). Not very compelling, all told.

[NewsCenter28]

4. Thanks for the in-depth response AM

I think you pretty much summed this up with that brilliant bit of prose. Made me feel a bit better about the doubters complaints as well

[FresnoDemocrat]

3. The comments on that article are

HILARIOUS as always. Then again, this is the grassroots of the Tea Party. They're ALWAYS funny, like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Actually, that's an insult to Jon and Stephen, I'm sorry.