Friday morning, official Washington and the chattering class around the nation awoke in a panic as to what the failure of Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” tax hike would mean for the country. But the panic is overwrought. “Plan B” was never an endgame to the fiscal cliff, rather, it was a messaging gimmick intended to buoy the Speaker’s negotiating position with President Obama.
Conservatives wisely opposed this measure, thus saving the Republican Party from backtracking on decades of hard work to protect Americans from ever-increasing taxes. Simply put, renegade conservatives behaved responsibly. They understood a political party’s seriousness of purpose is undermined when it embraces the other side’s political gimmick.
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