The Candy Coated Poison Pill

Tonight I read a FOX new headline. President Obama is agreeing to extending all the Bush era tax cuts with the understanding that the Democrat legislative agenda would be considered.

That agenda is several things and in my opinion none of them good.

• Harry Reid has introduced four versions of the "Dream Act" This legislation has not even went though committee in the Senate and could add over two million illegal aliens to the election rolls.
  

• Recently the Pentagon issued a report supporting repeal of don't ask don't tell. Senator McCain has predicted over a quarter million members of the armed services will resign or fail to rein-list if this policy is repealed. McCain is many things we don't like but he is a patriot. You can argue about the virtues of gays openly serving in the military in a time of peace much more easily than in a time of war.
  

• Unemployment insurance extensions for over two million Americans is on the table. All of us know people who are just hanging on but this has to stop some time.

Will the GOP swallow a candy coated pill of tax breaks filled with the poison above? My gut feeling says the old line establishment GOP will want to say yes.

It will be an interesting next few days.


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