Of course it shouldn't be ignored.
I just think the right-wing (or more exactly the "Conservative Entertainment Complex" in Fox News and so forth, as David Frum recently coined them) are naive....no I'm sorry, super naive if they really expect no tax increases of some kind. Most especially they must get over the idea of letting their adversary the Kenyan get a legislative victory. That was the whole point of obstructing the first term to force him out of office. That plan failed.
Politically, once the Bush Tax Cuts are expired, there is no way Obama is going to revive them. If anything, I could see him propose in its place a broad middle class tax cut and dare the GOP to vote against it at some point.
Regardless, the inevitable compromise won't please everybody for both sides must give up something. I believe Obama can get his party's base to be whipped into order as they ate the '10 tax deal with the GOP that pissed off the liberals. The GOP base on the other hand, I can't exactly trust their own party to control those animals.
Amen.
The 2010 Congress did very little, but they did manage to pass important legislation, like reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto, and their dramatic reading of selected portions of the Constitution.
