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Pushing Conservatives Off the Fiscal Cliff

Dianne101 Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 12:53 PM

. Then the Democrats either win a victory for the Middle Class, to the applause of everyone who gets a paycheck, or the Republicans hold out until they don’t have a Middle Class supporter left in the country. Maybe electing a bunch of rookie Republicans in 2010 was a mistake, because they totally got played.

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Pushing Conservatives Off the Fiscal Cliff

The conventional wisdom has emerged that in order to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," politicians in Washington must agree to some method of tax increases ("revenue") -- which will be real, even if low taxes are not the cause of our ills -- alongside some kind of promise of spending restraint on entitlement programs, which is our problem, and which no one believes Washington will restrain.

The American left and our "objective" journalists -- same thing, I know -- are not helping the nation balance its budget. As usual, these partisan hacks are obsessed with tearing the Republican coalition apart,...