There really is no other way to say it: the Republicans won, the liberal Democrats lost, and the president sided with the Republicans. The subject, of course, is an agreement to extend all the Bust tax cuts. The president tonight announced a "bipartisan framework" for agreement on, among other things, to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years. A Republican House aide tells me tonight it is "a damn good deal." And so it is, from the perspective of conservatives.
Come January, we need to do better. However, kicking the tax debate can down the road until 2012? Friggin' Brilliant. Let's have that debate right before the 2012 elections! The only way to get taxes more on the minds of voters is to move Income Tax day from April 15th to the Monday before elections. So on that we got a win.
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