Since we'll be having these battles starting at the end of 2011 anyway, I'm just going to come out in favor of all these things so it looks like I'm getting what I wanted in the first place...
• A 25% tax rate on estates above $10 million will give much needed relief to "middle class millionaires" so they can create more jobs by hiring caretakers to tend their multiple dwellings.
• Permanently extend the tax cuts for all Americans... who watch Fox news. Raise taxes on anybody who watches MSNBC, because they don't have the balls to primary the corporatist Dems anyway.
• Permanently enact the payroll tax cuts, because those making less than $20,000 have had it too good for too long. And really, nobody actually believes SS will be solvent in 10 years anyway, right?
In exchange for these concessions to the Republicans, the Dems can have... ummmm... here's a nice can of mixed nuts (with a side of blame for running up the deficit).