PROCÈS-VERBAL

As I noted yesterday, it’s a strange world where democrats try to sell the central republican goal of tax cuts as a good thing.

From last night’s Hardball:

Chris Matthews: Who filled Santa’s sack with all that great stuff for the democrats? The reduced cost of labor, the two percent off the payroll tax [he means the Social Security tax cut] the accelerated depreciation for business people . . . put all those goodies in that pack, so that it’s bigger than the president’s stimulus from last year?

If this is Santa’s gift, then President Obama is really Gregor Samsa.
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Be careful what you ask for . . .

It’s a little late in the game now for filibuster reform, and were I a democrat in the Senate right now, with the House takeover by rethugs imminent, I’d like to keep the filibuster arrow in my quiver. Senate democrats argued forcefully (yes, they fought, can you believe it?) to keep the Senate rules on filibuster intact.

Just a thought. The timing could be a whole lot better.
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