Why should the Democrats make the disastrous GOP tax "cuts" palatable?
Isn't that ultimately trying to make unacceptable policy acceptable enough?
This is where Dem leadership failed us
Because they tried to throw a cherry on top of the turd that ChimpCo and the GOP try and shove down our throats.
Dems, fucking stand your ground, vote no, and stop trying to cover the taste of the GOP crap with candy coating to make it palatable.
If the Dems voted no, and lost the bill, and didn't push the middle class cuts, they would have denied the GOP any cover.
It's the same short-sighted tactics that have failed time and again, because it all "defense" against an enemy that is ALWAYS on offense, and will always move the goal line on you.
The don't WANT Social Security. They WANT to bleed the Feds dry.
The will not stop and thus giving them ANYTHING, or making ANY of their agenda less painful is, in the end, appeasement.
Why on earth do we keep pretending that they really don't mean what they have been saying for decades?
Because there is never enough cuts in taxes to satisfy them. Not until they have a stripped down, pre-New Deal Fed government.
This is PRECISELY where the DLC and DNC have failed, and failed BIG since 1980 onward.
The GOP wants something?
Let them hold the ENTIRE bag.