Not to go all Eeyore on you, but I’ve about abandoned all hope with the news the Democrats are going to cave on taxes. I’m astounded that they are going to fuck this up. Literally, they have to do nothing and the tax cuts expire. It will take actual work to fuck this up, but they are going to pull it off. Why they won’t listen to folks like Kos, let the Bush tax cuts expire, and then craft their own tax policy and dare the GOP to vote against it is beyond me.
I thought maybe after being the GOP’s prison bitch for the last two years, the administration would come out swinging and put up a fight. Instead, it looks like they intend to shiv their supporters. (Source)
He's not caving to the Republicans; he's caving to the transpartisan insider power elite whose support he thinks he needs to govern. Popular opinion is irrelevant 95% of the time, and the 5% of the time it does matter, it's easy to manipulate. Although I still can't quite bring myself to accept it, It's pretty clear now that he's simply not in control; he's doing as he's told.
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