see that he is with the American Enterprise Institute. He is delusional if he thinks this debate over taxes suddenly resets after going off the fiscal cliff in January. We had an election and President Obama clearly won. He fails to mention, the compromise that President Obama's side already have on the table.
The offer now is to extend the tax cuts for the middle class and poor. The Bill has passed the Senate and right there for his people in the house to sign. Democrats in the house will sign it too. If the House Republicans don't sign it, the electorate is not stupid. The House Republicans will be seen as raising taxes on the middle class and poor, just to secure extending tax cuts for the wealthy. The problem with the House Republicans, they see the wealthy as the same as the middle class and poor. Smart people see right through this and even wealthy people like Warren Buffet chuckle at Thiessen's logic.
Furthermore, if we go off this cliff, everybody will suffer but more particularly, the military industry, which many Republicans depend on votes for. So the Republicans can go ahead and throw that constituency under the bus too, just to protect their Holy grail. Essentially this is compared to a hostage situation, and the Democrats are now saying, Make My Day, and we will see who suffers in 2014. And the notion Republicans refer to entitlements that they want to cut (Social Security and Medicare), they actually ran away from that debate when they confronted actual voters. It brings them clear out in the open, where older voters, in states such as Florida, will finally realize what Republicans were up to all along. They really wanted to throw them over the cliff, to protect the greedy. And I think the Democrats can finally get an endorsement from the AARP now.
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