Which is exactly where they want us to be, isn't it?
I can barely keep up with the holiday/family stuff, let alone politics. What I can say is that I cannot say anything definitively until January. Everything that is going on now is a lot of posturing and placement. When it all goes good or bad, each side will take the credit or blame the other, but nothing has really been accomplished in the last week...
What I have noticed over the weekend is that this Lame Duck/Limp Dick 'Tax Deal" that Obama has signed into law has morphed from a cave-in of his principles to a 'victory'. Really f*cking amazing...Are we as Americans and constituents and voters really so vapid and thick? Are our attention spans so short as to be placated by the spin, the HARD spin, that the White House and the Media put on issues like this???
For my part, I would have been content to see an impasse. Let the unemployment benefits expire as well as the tax cuts, then start with an iron Republican fist at the turn of the year. However, they are all, on both sides, politicians to the core, and each one has to secure his-her job, regardless of party or personal ideals or the promises made to get votes. An iron fist in a kid glove, perhaps...
The stock market has apparently responded positively to the posturing, and this will give the Republicans a bit of ammunition next month to start pushing for permanency of the tax cuts...Because make no mistake, the extension of the BUSH TAX CUTS fuels the economy, not the unfunded year-long extension of welfare for the unemployed.
Merry Christmas everyone, Happy New Year, and here's to looking forward to an interesting and definitive next two years!!!
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