Midknight Review -- new and revised: House Dems didn't want the humiliation, so they passed the compromise tax bill in the dead of night, just like they said they wouldn't do !!

A tax-cut compromise between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans – a harbinger of a new era of divided government in Washington – cleared the House around midnight Thursday, sending the $858 billion bill to the president’s desk.

The bill, which passed 277 to 148, provides a two-year extension for all tax cuts that were due to expire Dec. 31 – including for families earning more than $250,000 a year — and extends unemployment insurance benefits through next year. It also sets estate tax rates at 35 percent, with an exemption on the first $5 million.

Notes: about 4 hours ago, Midknight Review told its readers that the House was under even more pressue with the defeat of the 1.27 trillion dollar spending-lust bill the Dems tried to ram through the Senate at the last minute. We were right, of course. All in all, a very good day for the GOP.

The Dream Act (dealing with immigration) will fail but the Don’t Ask repeal will become the law of the land after the Senate vote on Saturday. While we do not care for the decision, activist judges were talked out of repealing the act, themselves. It was inevitable that the courts were going to repeal the Clintonian legislation.

What’s next? Conservatives are coming to town.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

House Dems didn't want the humiliation, so they passed the compromise tax bill in the dead of night, just like they said they wouldn't do !!

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