Reply #4: This is how it's supposed to work [View All]

[alcibiades_mystery]

Good for Pelosi, Biden, Reid, Baucus, and Obama.

The pushback on the tax deal is as good as the tax deal itself for Democrats (that includes the Sanders pseudo-filibuster). For close to a solid week, all we've heard about is Democratic wants on this thing. Again, this is good.

You put it out there and get the pushback. For some reason, this is seen as evil, when in fact it's precisely what we should be doing. The GOP has added jack squat to this debate, and has come off, rather, as the ones insisting on unpopular provisions. You could do a lot worse than that, politically, and policy-wise.