Arrghhh. I see that President Barack Obama was not able to stand up for what is right against the right. The richest of our neighbours to the south will continue to get the tax cuts they didn't need eight years ago. I know that the November elections mean that at the end of January, the democrats will no longer have the house majority nor the super-majority in the senate, but they still have it now. I know that the President looks for compromise - that's great, I do too. But after two years of beating one's head against the "party of no" (or as Sarah Palin likes to quote: "the party of hell no"), you think that compromise might have had it's day.
Hope was so strong when Obama was elected. It's all but died now because, what might be seen as a compromise in Obama's eyes is nothing more than the republicans getting what they want when they don't control congress or the whitehouse.
How much more exciting it would have been to have the President send legislation to congress making the middle and lower income tax cuts permanent and letting the rich ones expire. It would have been the right to do. And the right would have 'compromised'. They would have.
Disappointed.
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