So, if Boner gets the Teabaggers to support The Deal - do they vote to let the Bush Tax Cuts expire?

[jpak]

If so - what a bunch a ma-rooons

yup

:rofl:

[thereismore]

1. Does there have to be a vote on that? nt

[jpak]

2. Nope - but it would be sweet

and they will be eaten alive by the "true believers" back home

:D

[booley]

3. No

The tax cuts have already been set up to be an issue in the 2012 election.

[jpak]

4. They will expire before any new Congress will convene in 2013

so they go away

yup

[booley]

7. But they will be a 2012 issue

Republicans will claim that Obama is raising taxes unless the tax cuts are extended..

Congress doesn't have to wait for them to expire before they do that.

[dkf]

5. You don't vote to let them expire. You just get into the typical squabble

Which can't move anything forward and being a dysfunctional body you don't pass anything to change or keep it.

[Solomon]

6. And when they expire, it will count as billions in "cuts" in spending.

It would be stupid to make raising taxes part of the deal when that's set to happen anyway.

I wish people would shut up about it before the teabaggers insist on a pledge to make the Bush cuts permanent as part of the extortion.