GOP wary of taking up payroll tax fight again: afraid of a good fight
On Friday, House Democrats made a good point, or tried to, on the House floor.
That was Rep. James Clyburn not being recognized by the president pro tempore and not being allowed to speak on the floor. While the House was supposedly "in session." One of the points Democrats were trying to make was that if the Congress were indeed in session and working, as Republican leaders have insisted in reaction to President Obama's recess appointments, then should they actually be working? First, they exposed Speaker Boehner's big lie that the House is actually working, and second, they pressed the advantage Democrats gained last months in the payroll tax extension fight. All they need to do to press that advantage was to send the reminder to Republicans that it's still out there.
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