When a Dem president, with two large Dem majorities in Congress, extends the Bush tax cuts...

[Enrique]

what would the point of the DLC be?

and p.s., even they were against the Bush tax cuts.

[ProSense]

1. To oppose

this

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Before they passed the plan, Senators considered an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who spoke out against the bill for nine straight hours last week, that would have replaced the payroll tax credit with an extension of the Make Work Pay Credit, imposed an estate tax of 45 percent on estates worth more than $3.5 million and provided a cost-of-living-adjustment of $250 to seniors, veterans and the disabled dependent on government benefits. It failed 57 to 43.

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Roll call

[Enrique]

2. DLC is gone now

and Blanche Lincoln, the Nelsons, Baucus, Obama, et al will still be there. They don't need the DLC to tell them to vote with the GOP.