This Wednesday, before we ever get to votes on the tax cut compromise, we’re going to see a flurry of activity in the Senate with four separate cloture votes, including big ticket items like the DREAM Act, and a Cost of Living Adjustment for seniors. It’s in the nature of how this stuff works, though, that if you move like this simultaneously on four things at once, you’re basically announcing that you know at least three of them will fail.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=117360