When we "go over the cliff"...the first ledge will be the elimination of the dubya tax giveaways to the rich. The only way they are saved is now...and right now the only option they have is to accept less of an increase...but the writing is on the wall that the rich will pay more. If the rest of us see our taxes hiked due to going off the cliff, the blame will fall on the rushpublicans and they will pay for it politically in 2014. So they'll come scurrying to accept restoring the cuts on those making under 250k and claim that was a tax cut. That's cliff one...
The next is sequestration that will hit red states far harder than blue ones. Massive cuts in defense spending as well as cuts in corporate welfare will put lots of heat on rushpublican asshats who not only didn't bring home the bacon, they scared away the pigs. So it's lose-lose again.
Turtleman is trying to look tough in holding his raucous caucus together. The DeMint defection shows the chasm within and how this is sure to lead to mistakes and overplays. These antics couldn't come at a better time in light of the upcoming changes to the filibuster and how pruneface has abused them over and over again.
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