And, I kid you not, with a straight face, Van Hollen accused the Republicans of engaging in class warfare.  He said (paraphrasing) we have to stop the class warfare and not give tax relief to these 6,600 families.  

I'm waiting for his latest revenue generating scheme: hiring people to go into Forest Lawn, Mt. Olivet & Gethsemane Cemeteries so that they can dig up the graves and retrieve any valuable capitol from those buried there, which can then be spent by Rep Levin and his colleagues.

After all, they're dead. They no longer need it.

Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., said that with unemployment hovering just under 10 percent and the deadline for avoiding a big tax hike fast approaching, lawmakers had little choice but to support the bill.

"This is just no time to be playing games with our economy," said Camp, who will become chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee in January. "The failure to block these tax increases would be a direct hit to families and small businesses."

Good God!  I hope this isn't the kind of weak-@ss leadership the GOP has in mind for the next two years.  I all ready am not impressed with the new Weeper of the House during the Lame Duck.  And the rest of 'em?

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., called it "a bipartisan moment of clarity."

Yep.  One bang-up of a job there.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said he thought the White House could have gotten a better deal.

"When I talk to the Republicans they are giddy about this bill," he said.

Giddy?  No, really... Giddy?

Un-f'ing-believable.