It's amazing what an election can do

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Realizing that this is the best chance they have to get any kind of deals done (and take credit for them) Democrats finally agreed to a number of changes Republicans have been asking for for years in the 9-11/first-responders health care bill

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[izuko]

Let's see... Republicans get Democrats to end DADT for them so that they don't have to take the hit with their base.

Republicans split the timeline for unemployment and taxes so that they can deal with both separately the next time (thus allowing unemployment to expire after the current extension while still being able to tackle the tax cuts nearly a year later).

And they fix the 9/11 responders' bill.

Yeah, Obama really took them to the cleaners.

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Obama learned one thing from Bill: no matter what happens, take credit for it. :D

[izuko]

Can't wait to see what happens when the left finds out that the unemployment extension really... isn't.

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It's a lose-lose for them. It keeps the unemployment rate higher than it otherwise would be and there's even less logic to "extending" it again and again in the future.

Unless, of course, they come out and admit that they're trying to recreate a slave class.