Lots of angst on the board this morning as of 9:15am EST. Happy New Year everyone! Anyway, with all of the terribad, horrible, no good, very bad things in this deal, I thought I'd go to some RW sites to see them celebrating! Here's just a smidgen of the joy they are waking up with this morning, below the squig:
DRUDGE REPORT:
Senate passes tax hikes -- at 2 a.m. New Year's Day...
Rubio, Paul vote 'no'...
Frustration mounts among House Republicans...
ALL TAX, NO CUTS...
PRESIDENT DEMANDS MORE NEXT YEAR...
OK, ok, well, Matt Drudge is always prone to some hyperbole. Let's check out Erick Erickson's
Red State:
FEATURED STORY
Senate passes Obama’s fiscal cliff tax increases in dead of night
By: Dan Spencer (Diary) | January 1st at 06:52 AM | 10
In a move all too reminiscent of the passage of the ever unpopular ObamaCare, last night the Senate voted 89 to 8 to approve the so-called “American Taxpayer Relief Act” ...
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Fiscal Deal: Tax Hikes, Green Pork, Stimulus, Oh My
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | December 31st, 2012 at 06:58 PM | 45
Conservatives Should Kill This Deal
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 31st, 2012 at 01:45 PM | 69
Hmm, Ok, that one didn't go so well either. Townhall.com?
Senate Passes Bill to Avoid Fiscal Cliff - 41:1 Ratio of Tax Increases To Spending Cuts
Leah Barkoukis
DAMMIT! Human Events???
Senate passes tax hikes 89 to 8; fiscal cliff deal moves to House
Senate passes tax hikes 89 to 8; fiscal cliff deal moves to House
By: Neil W. McCabe
1/1/2013 03:00 AM
ARGH! Weekly Standard, one time?????
The New Normal
5:30 PM, Dec 31, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZER
Dysfunctional, the much used adjective to describe our political class, generally taken to mean deviating from norms of behavior, is a poorly chosen adjective. The president and the Congress have shown no sign of deviating at all from some norm—this is their norm. Economists have taken to using the phrase “the new normal” to describe the condition of our economy—slow growth, zero interest rates, high unemployment. The phrase might better be applied to our politicians. Or, since dysfunctional doesn’t accurately describe what is going on in Washington, “ludicrous” or “ridiculous” might do.
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CRAP!!!!!!!
Oh well, I'm sure you're all still right, just like you were about the SS cuts that were coming, are coming, will be coming in the future. It's important that you have good, strong principles instead of winning strategies; principles such as recession, speculation, and complete denial about what political party is in control of the House.
Please proceed.