We are being told that the reason there wasn't a vote last night by the House is so that they can claim that they are voting on a tax cut, not a tax increase. That's because the law will have expired, and all the rates will have reverted back to the Clinton rates. Thus, any vote to decrease taxes will be a tax cut because the rates are already at higher rates as the vote is taken.
But it is a sell-out nevertheless. Obama is probably going to be successful in dividing and conquering us because these people will not be true to the original intent of the tax cut. The original intent was to give a tax cut to everybody. Thus, any tax cuts should be the same. Otherwise, it is a sell-out.
Selling out is easier than holding out. After all, only 1% or so will see their taxes going up. Why risk the anger of the 99%?
For selling out, there should be a reckoning. They should be prepared to lose their jobs en masse if they sell out. They are clearly more afraid of the 99% than they are afraid of those who put them in their places.
It will be easy for them to betray because the people who put them there in their places will not see the principle that must be defended. Obama is attempting to conquer us by dividing us. If everyone, or just a large minority insisted upon everybody getting a tax cut or nobody getting one, there could be no betrayal. The stakes would be too high.
It is the same way Hitler took over Germany. Blame some small group, like the Jews, then use that as leverage to enslave a nation. That's because not enough saw the necessity to defend the few against the machinations of a megalomaniac who was hell-bent on enslaving the many.
Guns will be next. Then the conquest will be complete.
Update:
The only way to defend a vote for this is to get something in return that offsets it. I think an appropriate thing to get in return for a yes vote for this thing is to repeal Obamacare. Attach that to this cliff deal as an amendment. Otherwise, vote against it. A vote for it is a sell-out.
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