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In reply to the discussion: Look at the Offers. Look at what was never on the table. Real change cannot happen [View all]OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)...when the GOP Tea-Nazi controlled House passes legislation that includes the elimination of the tax cuts for those earning annual incomes of $250,000, then we may have the start of something real. Even then, the Senate will have to produce their own legislation which will no doubt include protections for the earned benefit programs. At that point, the negotiations between the two houses of Congress will get really serious and we may eventually see a compromise bill that will be placed on the President's desk for consideration. If he likes it, he signs, if he doesn't, it goes back to the drawing board.
Or, the House will fail to act before December 31st and we will all do a Thelma and Louise off the fiscal cliff. The GOP Tea-Nazis will be blamed big-time by the Republican rank and file if they allow this to happen
Until then, it's all nebulous pie in the sky and not worth acting like Chicken Little.