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WHY THE TAX DEAL?

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My first thought when the news broke on Monday night about the deal to extend the Bush Era Tax cuts The Republicans secretly placed a new script on President Obamas TelePrompTer I now love tax breaks for millionaires!Barack Obama finally became an engaged President. He made a deal designed to get the economy moving by 2012 so that he can get reelected. The fact that the Left hates this deal shows that Obama is trying to seize the center again and win the 2012 election.Obamas first two years of massive federal spending corporate takeovers, TARP and the Stimulus Bill failed miserably to generate private sector economic growth. And time is running out for him to wait for the economy to start growing.As a friend of mine put it, 9 unemployment is the overunder for Obamas reelection chances. Above 9 and he is toast unless the GOP nominates Palin and under 9 and he has a fighting chance to be reelected on the argument that I have gotten our economy back on track.Now Obama has channeled Ronald Reagan with his payroll tax cut and agreement to keep the Bush Ear tax cuts in effect and even to cut the estate tax rates. No wonder the Left is going nuts! Their great hope Barack Obama is more Reagan and Bush than they can stomach!The only loser in this arrangement is the longterm financial viability of our nation as another almostone trillion dollars will be added onto the already staggering 14Trillion debt we are carrying.But the President and the GOP leadership decided it was more important to juice the economy now in advance of the 2012 election after all, everyone in the House is up for reelection in 2012, too and worry about the debt later.If it works, Obama can get himself reelected in 2012. If it does not work, the consequences for embothem parties will be catastrophic. The anger that catapulted the Tea Party Movement to political prominence this year will compound itself into a throw em all out fury in 2012.