Schumer says Democrats will offer 3-year extension of health care tax credits

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4. The "leverage" (if you can call it that) is putting every D on record voting for and every R voting against

If this is truly a clean extension of the tax credits, Rs will own this from now til the midterms. As EarlG put it in another post, a 13 point shift blue is a seismic change. My prediction: This vote will fail. The tax credits will expire. Those people in poor, rural red areas will feel the pain the most and that will shift things even farther blue. I don't like this either, but at this point, it's all we've got to work with.

To quote the movie Full Metal Jacket, "It's a big shit sandwich and we've all got to take a bite." Those rural red trump voters will be taking a bigger bite than most blue areas.