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.