Even if you are not happy with Boehner and McConnell, as many of us are, you have to admit that they have made a brilliant move in connecting the extension of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax holiday with the Keystone pipeline project. Just when the progressives thought that they had painted the GOP into a corner, this twist snatches political victory from the jaws of defeat. Now the president, and the progressives, cannot veto or defeat the bill without being seen as anti-middle class and anti-jobs.
It will be interesting to see whether the progressives can wriggle out of this one.
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