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In reply to the discussion: Check in here if you think NO DEAL before the New Year is a VICTORY [View all]calimary
(81,247 posts)When the new year arrives, and brings with it a new Congress, some of the assholes who love obstructing stuff like this will be GONE. Many of them republi-CONS who'll be replaced by DEMOCRATS. We have more momentum on our side as of the new year. If the CONS were really smart, they'd cut a deal now while they still have the numbers (and the bad-guy sympathizers) in Congress and the Senate that they do.
Yeah, CONS. Just try getting something done when Elizabeth Warren is one of those new folks you're gonna have to deal with in the Senate. Try getting your way when your two favorite House loudmouths, joe walsh and allen west, are GONE and thus no longer able to hog the spotlight and propel your obstructions farther forward. Both of those schmucks will be GONE, replaced by DEMOCRATS, who don't share the same walsh/west head-up-your-ass ideology and have no plans to start doing so anytime soon. Better the devil you know, and all that.
So try to get your deal NOW. While you still have what's left of your waning power base.