A Blink Is As Good As A Nod

Unsurprisingly, the Democrats caved on "paying for" the one year Alternative Minimum Tax fix. My favorite part of the article was:

“Our message to the Senate is that we are not going to vote for any bill that is not paid for,” Representative Mike Ross of Arkansas said recently. “If the Senate wants to spend Christmas Day here, we’re prepared to do that.”

But no lawmakers really wanted to do that in the end, as Wednesday afternoon’s vote demonstrated, with 157 Democrats joining 195 Republicans in voting “yes.”

Heaven forfend, the idea of legislators working on a holiday to stick to their principles! Let's not set that precedent now, shall we?