Don't let Boehner (R. Orange-of-the-wrong-variety) set the tone of the discussion. If you give republicans the tip pf your pinky-finger, they'll take it all the way to you arm-pit.
Not to put too fine a point to it, but the recent blathering of Boehner compromizing on the tax-cut expiration is a playing up to the republican agenda, and that we can do without.
It's a ruse and a feint and it is not what it is sold to be what it is.
Boehner is NOT compromizing. The only thing he is doing is playing the marketing game and telling us that he'll compromize when Hell freezes over.
The only distinction that he made is that he "says" that he'll go along with the middle-class exclusion from expiration, but if you read the fine print, then he'll fight even that tooth and nail.
Screw him!
Let it all expire and take it from there.
We (as American tax payers) don't need his blessing and besides that, we'd not notice the expiration of the Bush tax-cuts anyway.
I mean, I didn't notice them going into effect to begin with. For me they were a bottom-line management issue in my budget and , by all means,they can return to being just that.
Paying taxes, even as the proudly NON-American that I am (I am your Friendly neighborhood Alien, in case you missed that.), is part of making sure that we live in a truly civil society and I am happy and proud to contribute to the greater good.
Let's no pass the republicans the ammunition to have them claim to support the middle class and let's do what is right and good for all and for the good of the Nation.
F-them and reject their false and venial 'sacrifices' to political opportunity and let all of the 2001 tax-cuts expire.
Let's not lift a finger to assist their hand as it is grabbing us (as in US) by the throat and then inevitably imposes the throtling of the middle-class by their action at the earliest opportunity.
We must not take the poinonous bait that is thrown to us by Boehner and we must NOT be seduced by the invoked expedience of playing up to the lowest common denominator.
Let all 2001 Bush tax-cuts expire!