Now that the Republicans seem to have gotten the Democrats off their higher taxes kick, the question is whether a minority of the House Republicans will refuse to pass the Boehner legislation that could lead to a deal that will spare the country a major economic disruption and spare the Republicans from losing the 2012 elections by being blamed — rightly or wrongly — for the disruptions.
Is the Boehner legislation the best legislation possible? Of course not! You don’t get your heart’s desire when you control only one house of Congress and face a presidential veto.
The most basic fact of life is that we can make our choices only among the alternatives actually available. It is not idealism to ignore the limits of one’s power. Nor is it selling out one’s principles to recognize those limits at a given time and place, and get the best deal possible under those conditions.
That still leaves the option of working toward getting a better deal later, when the odds are more in your favor.
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With the petulant obstinate childishness of Senate Democrats and President Obama, I think the Republican are wasting their time, as the other side clearly wants everything their way or else a credit default. The Democrats are treating this as a political game rather than the serious situation it is. Nearly every time I see a Democrat politician or political wonk talking about this issue, they smile in their presentation (although some are trying to suppress it, the corners of their mouths still tend to be raised). Most people can subconsciously recognize such simple body language clues as insincerity. I think it is becoming clearer to the regular people every day that Democrats are posturing about how “important this is” and at the same time dealing in bad faith, and this attitude very well could turn around and bite them.
Wordsmith, I also think that they intend to have the limit reach by not participating in the debate
to end with the cap presentation,
so then they will be able to make a drastic decision and not take the responsibility of it,
and accuse the other side of not being serious, leading the PRESIDENT TO HAVE NO CHOICE BUT US HIS POWER TO EXECUTIVE DEMAND ON THE CONGRESS, THAT NEVER REFUSE HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER BEFORE.
so he must be lurking for it to end before he will do what his agenda was to do all along and get out clean,
but he has overlook one thing,
the PEOPLE ARE NOT FOOLED THIS TIME