Fiscal Cliff Deal Not Reached, Leaders Agree To Continue Talks

Just as Democrats did when Bush "asked" Democrats to pass his legislation to cut taxes and go to war in Iraq?  

Or when presidents Reagan, Bush1 and Bush2 "asked" Democrats to pass all of the deregulation, privatization, anti-union, anti-choice legislation that have us teetering on the edge of third worldism?  

Do you elect Democrats to cave to whichever majority party is controlling the White House's desires?  Do you believe that other Democratic voters do?  Do you believe that Republican voters do?

Members of Congress have to win elections (in the House it's every 2 years and in the Senate it's every 6 years) and they don't do it by supporting legislation that the voters that sent them to Washington don't like.  In that, I'm sympathetic with Republican politicians' plight and only wish that Democratic politicians had not been so ethically-challenged.  

FWIW, Clinton's budget passed with not one Republican in the House voting for it and a 50-50 tie in the Senate that the vice-president (Gore) was brought in to break.  
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