The Republicans don’t even wait to gloat.

In the story Tax deal passes Senate test vote, the Boston Globe reports:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in a speech yesterday that the tax compromise was an essential first step toward addressing the nation’s deficit, by “cutting off the spigot” of tax income to the federal government to force Congress to make spending cuts.

I suppose the Republicans will next want to whiten the snow falling in DC by painting it black.

Does Obama seriously think that in a Congress dominated by a minority of Republicans that the tax cuts will expire in 2012?  This is the last chance for the Democrats to stop the attack on the nation by the Republicans that want to live in a country where the government is too weak to control the excesses of the ultra-wealthy.

The Koch brothers might be surprised one day by what the Tea Party actually does when the Tea Partiers finally realize they have been had.