What Happens If The Vote In The House Fails?...

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4. Then we get to see whether fantasies about progressives getting everything they want

from the new GOP House will be played out.

Remember, one of the major reasons that the current deal is BAD BAD BAD is because without it, the GOP House would be so over a barrel that they would absolutely positively HAVE TO ACCEDE TO EVERY PROGRESSIVE DEMAND, or they would disappear into thin air! In the magical speculative world, the GOP HOuse would suddenly fall to its knees in the face of public pressure and give us middle class tax decreases no questions asked, because, well, because that's the story we've told ourselves! And dammit, we like that story. The one about magically getting everything we want from the otherwise fanatically recalcitrant House GOP!

Or, if they don't, so what anyway, because we should all go back to the Clinton era rates anyway, and stop whining about paying another $100-$200 out of each paycheck, middle class American! Or something.

But we wil get a chance to see this magical world unfold before us, where all we have to do is hold hands and jump, and everything we want comes to us in a magical rainbow of happiness!