So it has come down to this: Give the ultra-rich the continuing tax breaks or NOTHING will happen in government. No extension of needed unemployment benefits, no continuation of the tax breaks for those earning $250,000 and under, no action on "dont' ask, don't tell" (despite the urgency that the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs have urged). JUST NOTHING!
Everything is hostage to the fat cats getting tax breaks which are unfunded and (no matter how many times the Rethuglican parrots repeat the "talking points") do nothing other than line the pockets of the already rich while adding between $4 and $7 billion to the deficit that Rethuglicans say MUST be brought under control. It's quite amazing that this bunch can hold these two disparate ideas in their political heads while at the same time just shutting the government down, all the while pointing to a "mandate" which really changed the make-up of the two houses of Congress very little.
It's time for Democratic legislators with some semblance of backbone to call their bluff! The American public is not truly stupid enough to believe that this intransigent, bullying behavior is in any way honest or fair.
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