There is definitely different views on that subject, but reasonableness will hopefully allow for a solution.
Say as you will, I highly doubt resetting tax rates on the wealthiest Americans to where they have been historically, before Bush, will not be an area Obama will negotiate, and most Americans don't want him too.
The rates are at 40 year lows and we have a huge deficit. This is not rocket science.
So yup, hoping up here too for a compromise, but I think many will be surprised in that the left will not back down this time, this will surprise people I think...
Say as you wish, the fallout will be painful and we will see who is held to account by the American public in 2012.
"evil flourishes when good people fail to act"