Reply #97: Your points are quite correct, I believe [View All]

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and he probably is thinking exactly that! I suspect that is precisely he has taken a notably sharper tone with his republican detractors the last few days.

The good news is that as much as we bitch about things that have come out of the bill in trying to work with the other side, it remains largely intact and the republicans are realizing they can't gut it far enough to make it fail. There will be some level of success, so they will be back to trying the same arguments they did the first few years of the Clinton administration... the old "...the economy was starting to recover on its own" bullshit.