Suddenly They Don't Like Compromise
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Economics & the Economy, Taxes
The news is indicating that the rumored tax compromise is now a done deal. Obama will accept that he must refrain from raising taxes in the midst of a sluggish economy, and in return Republicans will allow passage of an unprecedented third year for unemployment benefits, transforming the once temporary assistance program into a new permanent and never ending entitlement.
Some Democrats, and in particular Obama’s hard left base, are revolting. Not being able to raise taxes is apparently where they draw their line in the sand (and to think they routinely manage to deny the label of tax and spend liberals with a straight face). It seems they really, deeply, truly wanted to take American down with the class-warfare ship.
But what I want to know is: what happened to the great benefits of compromise? For years these hard left radicals have feigned offense at the “partisan culture” of Washington that supposedly made compromise impossible. To hear them tell it, you’d have thought compromise was next only to godliness. But as soon as they are asked to do something so simple as not raise taxes when the unemployment rate is 9.8% in exchange for a massive handout and entitlement extension, they freak out.
True colors.