i've been too busy playing with a toddler to follow u.s. politics all that closely while i'm here. but isn't the best strategy obvious? the democrats can hold a vote on extending tax cuts to those earning less than $200k per year, telling the GOP it's either this extension or no extension. then if the GOP thwarts the extension, the dems can blame the republicans for letting the middle class tax cuts expire, telling the public that the GOP was willing to screw 95% of the country for the wealthy few.
the tax cuts are expiring at the end of the year unless congress acts. that means the democrats, not the republicans, have the upper hand in this debate. at least they do if the democrats were willing to take it. but unfortunately that's not how the current democratic party works. there's no upper hand they won't just hand to the other side.
