Reply #2: I agree with that

[karynnj]

and of all the things I wrote the most disturbing to me was Reid's incredible statement that gives credibility to teh Republicans' claim that they have the more support on this issue.

Did a single Republican speak of the unusual vote of confidence that the Democrats got in 2008? Where we ended up with 60 Senators and a bigger House majority than they have now? I don't think it happened - none agreed - for that election - that elections have consequences. Immediately, they claimed that the 2009-2010 Congress was "no longer" representative of what "the people" (the Koch brothers?).

Now, there are polls that show that most people would want raising revenue used as part of the solution to the deficit - especially in the form of raising taxes on the wealthiest- as your avatar suggests. Reid appears to be accepting their frame.