Can a single person opposed to the tax deal explain how the purist position could pass the Senate? [View All]

[RBInMaine]

The R's have the votes to oppose cloture on anything short of a compromise of the type reached, and they would do so. Pure and simple. All the bitching and screeching about this is an effort in futility. The RePubs wanted PERMANENT extensions of the tax cuts for the rich. They DIDN'T get it. They want an outright ELIMINATION of the estate tax. They DIDN'T get it. They wanted to STOP further unemployment benefits. They DIDN'T get it. And they had to concede on a whole host of extensions of stimulus measures that they did not vote for in the first place and want to oppose again. Obama is a pragmatist who understands that governing is about actually getting some things accomplished. Too many people here want to wage an ideological fight best saved for 2012. Both sides gave here, and there will be plenty of TeaPublicans who will give the RePubs crap for dealing with Obama and not holding out for PERMANENT extensions of the all tax cuts and an outright elimination of what they have labeled the "death tax." Obama is doing exactly the right thing. It is on balance a pretty fair compromise that the RePubs knew they had to sign onto or THEY would be toast. We need to preserve the tax cuts for the middle class, get the other middle class provisions extended, and get unemployment insurance extended. This bill does it all. Pass it now ! It is is called actually governing and not just incessently fighting and bitching and holding out for purity that rarely exists here in the real world.