Idiotic

To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush’s upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district where voting for middle-class tax cuts and against upper-class ones is “politically risky.”) The only consolation is that the Blue Dog clowns most responsible for this fiasco are also the most likely to end up out on their ass this November, and good riddance.

The vastly disproportionate influence of the rich on American politics isn’t exactly news, but the willingness of many House Dems to commit political suicide in order to defend an awful and very unpopular policy for the upper class is about as stark and depressing an example as you can get.