Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal Doesn't Mean Future Accords

It WAS addressed before the midterms -- TO LET THE BUSH TAX CUTS EXPIRE!

Up until this legislatio­n got railroaded through, up until and after the midterms, the Bush tax cuts were going to expire for everyone.  That was fine for Democratic voters AND Republican voters.  Even middle class voters, who realize how this deficit affects them worse than any other group -- There's no money available for them to borrow (those who have jobs and can pay it back).  WIthout the ability to borrow money, you can't buy cars, you can't buy appliances (washers, dryers, refrigerat­ors, etc.), and the economy remains stalled with a good chance that you're going to lose your job, too, if you still have one.

Ending the Bush tax cuts was a midterm election as a done deal, a 'settled issue', or so citizens thought.

But on December 3, 2010, David Axelrod launched the campaign  (it had to have been the plan all along) to extend the Bush tax cuts, by appearing on the cable shows using the Republican rhetoric that unless the tax cuts remain, "taxes will increase".  

That's right out of the Republican­s' play book.  Within one day, Obama and 'all the presidents­' men' (White House & DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party operatives­) fanned out across the media, making that same pitch.*  

The only difficulty for Obama in getting this tax cut deal through Congress was in getting a coherent narrative that could be spun for Democratic voters, and with this new (for Democrats) pitch, that "Obama doesn't want your taxes to increase" (said first by Axelrod and then anchored by Obama and all of his surrogates on all of the cable shows*), it was just a matter of time before it was a done deal.

This deal wasn't any kind of conflict between Democrats & Republican­s politician­s, these hand-serva­nts of the rich and the corporate.  This was a matter of how to get it past the voters.  Could Obama make it look like Republican­s were really a hard sell, and that this was really a good deal for the Democratic people?  

What we just saw was Kabuki theater.
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