Does anyone realize what the GOP just did?

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2. "scare the Republicans into compromise"

Yeah, because that's going to happen.

More likely scenario is that public opinion is soundly in favor of the Buffet rule, soundly in favor of raising taxes on the wealthy, soundly in favor of not cutting social programs, but because a few talking head cable news goons and the David Broder acolytes in the Washington press corps speak out against it and scare them , the Democrats will be the ones who end up compromising and come up with some absurd plan with 10 social program/spending cuts for every one half of a tax raised, and even that one half of a tax will likely be on the poor or middle class.

And then the Democrats will march around with their chests out, crowing about how they won because they got revenue increases, and why can't progressives just be happy about this and thank them for their hard work and skillful negotiating tactics.