...he'll have fewer Democrats come January. And, hey, the only other things to be accomplished in the next two weeks are debt-spending resolutions and repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" and passing the Dream Act and ratifying the START treaty and wrangling President Obama's tax cut deal.
The Republicans' Mighty Mitch McConnell (see smiling photo, left) has successfully gotten congressional Democrats carping at Obama over giving the GOP an extension of all Bush tax cuts and a lower Social Security payroll tax and estate tax changes and business investment tax incentives in return for less than five dozen more weeks of unemployment insurance.
Such a deal, eh?
Well, truth is, as Obama reluctantly realized, it's a better deal for him now than next month when the newly Republicanized House would vote to extend the tax cuts anyway and Obama wouldn't get anything, including credit, for having to sign such a popular measure.
A new Gallup Poll out this morning finds the extensions of tax cuts and unemployment benefits are particularly popular among Americans, two out of three, in fact.
So, look at that: It seems the Republicans and Obama are together in sync with the American public. That must really annoy the other folks.
And since Obama wants this stealth stimulus plan so badly to possibly salvage his 2012 reelection, and since he pretty much left Harry and Nancy out of the December weekend deal-making, the Nevada senator figures to slip online poker into the much-coveted tax cut bill for a free ride during the ensuing hubub. Voila!
Will this Reid insert ignite more cramming in of pet projects that overload the bill with miscellaneous irrelevancies, stalling the all-important tax cut extension before the Jan. 1 deadline?
Republicans say online poker has zero chance.
But here's the beauty in wily Harry's cards: Even if he's bluffing with this hand, the Nevadan can't lose. Just attempting passage of online poker now earns him chips back home in Vegas, baby.
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Romney's powerful federal PAC, Free and Strong America, is footing some of the bills for Romney's activities. But the rest seems to be coming from state PACs located in Alabama, Michigan, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Romney has raised more than $440,000 this year from a PAC established in Alabama, a state where there exist no restrictions on the size or number of donations an individual or corporation may contribute to committees. Just $21,500 has gone to candidates in that state, while more than $300,000, has been used to pay the salaries of the staff and other administrative costs of his Free and Strong America leadership PAC.
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