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The 83-15 vote the Senate took to move the tax bill Monday was huge news â€" when has something this consequential in the two years since President Obama took office passed with this much support from both parties?

Reluctant Democrats are coming around, finally seeing they have little choice but to climb aboard or risk the public blaming any further economic deterioration on them. After Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) led the charge against the compromise in a House Democratic Caucus meeting last week by shouting, "No we can't," he was called out by none other than the Rev. Al Sharpton, who said opposing the deal and blaming President Obama was tantamount to abandoning working people.

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