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      BFF
“While much of Congress is upset at the prospect of downing such a bitter brew, the new political faction known as the Tea Party doesn’t abide any compromise, no matter the stakes for the country. With just two more days on the debt clock, the machinations on Capitol Hill grew ever more surreal on Sunday. Reid’s initial compromise failed to get the required 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster……… As the deal evolved with more than $2 trillion in cuts, equal to or more than the amount needed to extend the debt ceiling through the next election, and with no additional revenue, the clear winner was the Tea Party. The newcomers held their ground, dictating the terms of the debate and extracting a historic victory in the scale of deficit reduction. Yet many who ran under the Tea Party banner could end up voting against it because it doesn’t go far enough. These members’ refusal to back down on any new revenue, not even closing tax loopholes for special interests, took the nation’s economy to the brink. And it left some Democrats feeling like they had been extorted ………..”

“Feeling extorted” is the wrong term to use for Democrat legislatures. The Democrats undressed, lied down (presumably on their backs but not necessarily so) and opened their legs just wide enough. Can they call it rape now? Absolutely not: they were intimidated, became the “chicken” in the unusual game of chicken, but they could have kept their clothes on, could have said “NO”.
(There is no such thing as a “Tea Party”: it is a major wing of the GOP now and soon it will be all of the GOP).
Cheers
mhg



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