The left hand and the other left hand say "yes" to tax cuts through gritted teeth

A $1.8 billion tax cut package passed in the Defeat-ocrat-controlled House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 360-45.

Yes, you read that sentence correctly. The House of Representatives, which is controlled by Cut-and-Run-ocrats, and led by Bug Eyes Pelosi, overwhelmingly passed a measure to provide one billion, eight hundred million dollars in tax cuts over the next ten years.

But Mr. Light Bulb, how can this be?

Well, it all has to do with the wisdom of our Founding Fathers and their creation of the most incredible, human-inspired document the world has ever seen, the Constitution of the United States. They foresaw a time when our country, having grown in size and population, would need some sort of sanity check for ill-considered ideas that the population-and-short-term-of-service-based lower house of our national legislature would propose. That sanity check would be to force them to agree with the state-and-long-term-of-service-based upper house before a bill is enrolled and sent to the chief executive for his signature and passage into law.

Huh?

The House of Representatives and the Senate have to agree on the bill before they can send it to the President.

Oh. And...

And the Senate Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, are doing their job well.

The House vote displayed the influence the Senate's Republican minority can have on congressional legislation. House Democrats had demanded a minimum wage bill without any tax provisions. Senate Democrats insisted that without some tax relief, the minimum wage would lose necessary Republican backing.

You Defeat-ocrats want an unemployment-increasing minimum wage hike? Fine. You're not going to get it without some compromise. Of course, the House and Senate still have a ways to go before the President sees this.

Passage of a wage hike for the lowest-paid workers now depends on how quickly the House and Senate work out differences between their tax packages. The Senate tax breaks - worth $8.3 billion - are more than four times bigger than the ones passed in the House.

God bless you, James Madison.