It looks like Obama won’t have any difficulty getting his tax compromise passed. I watched Jon Kyl extolling its virtues on the Senate floor this morning. What really struck me was the sight of Jon Kyl talking up the virtues of a bill that will do as much damage to the budget deficit as the Stimulus Bill did, and without any apologies to the Tea Partiers who expressed a desire for no more deficit spending. It reminds me of how Bush responded to the 2006 midterms by adding troops to Iraq. If the public was sending a message about deficit spending, the Republicans didn’t hear it.
What do you make of the roll call on the cloture vote? Strange bedfellows, eh?
