Reply #6: I think that shows you were thinking

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On a policy level, there were things to disagree with (low estate tax for two years, continuation of cuts for wealthy for two years), and also things to like (unemployment extension, expansion of EIC, stimulative measures). That is why it's called a compromise.

On the political level, there was a decision to make about whether to do nothing (the bill we'd originally wanted, which I'm not even sure I wanted after a while, got voted down in the Senate) and getting something out of a situation that can only get worse two weeks from now, when the House is totally out of our control.

It wasn't easy: compromise is never easy. But we'd better get used to it, because the American people, in all their unwisdom, sent these jokers to Washington last November, and come January 3, they are going to be screwing us royally.