Its Hard To Believe... Democratic Version

My party, the party that I have always believed in.  The party that couldn't pass Single Payer with a majority in both houses, and a President in the White House.  The party that waited til the lame duck session to pass Don't Ask Don't Tell, and The Dream Act.  My party is now turning their back on everything they asked for, because a few billionaires are going to have to pay a smaller amount of taxes, and Paris Hilton will have to pay a smaller amount on her inheritance taxes next year.

My party is risking a 13 month extension of unemployment benefits because the President, whom they have not had the slightest interest in supporting or backing up, negotiated with Republicans, and gave away a few items to ensure the average middle class family would see a $1300 annual reduction in payroll taxes for the next 2 years, and that 2 million Americans wouldn't lose their unemployment checks the week before Christmas.

My party, most of whom said last week that the Republican party was holding the American middle class hostage until some billionaires got a tax cut, is now threatening to hold the American middle class tax cuts hostage to prevent some billionaires from getting a tax cut.

I can't imagine that Christmas is going to be all the great for the families that are out of work, but to lose their benefits the week before Christmas.  Not even the Grinch could imagine such a thing.

Does my party really believe that when this guy takes over the House, that anything even remotely as generous will happen?  This guy who has never walked past an Ooompa Loompa Spray Tan Shop, this guy who handed out checks from tobacco companies to Republicans on the floor of the United States House of Representatives minutes before a vote on a tobacco law, this guy who cries every time a millionaire pays sales tax on a Rolls Royce?

Let's get real.  In the long run, those tax cuts only hurt America's Middle Class, as long as there is one, and if Democrats hold this tax cut hostage because of the upper 2% getting a tax cut for 2 years, I don't really know how much longer the middle class is going to last.  It would have been different if they had made this move during the last 2 years.  It would have probably prevented the ass kicking we got in the last election.  But now, when you are falling down the basement stairs with the puppy in your hands, you just do your best not to squish the puppy, and hope that you'll get up and climb the stairs again.

The hostages changed hands, and now my party wants the ransom.  Its hard to believe.