House Dems Decide That Suicide is the Best Option

Bret Baier from Special Report has this:

Fox has learned that the House Democratic Caucus has just approved a non-binding effort which would keep President Obama’s controversial tax cut plan off the House floor unless a majority of the Democratic Caucus favors the measure. Speaker Pelosi said the House would not touch the bill until the Senate completed action on it first.

Producers on Capitol Hill heard chants of "just say no!" coming from this morning's House Dem Caucus meeting.. 

They're a bunch of children.

If the bill never goes to the House floor every American taxpayer will get a tax increase on January 1 and the economy will sputter to a stop. And in 2012 there won't be a Democrat re-elected in the country.

Chuck Todd adds this:

Caucus resolution aside: Sources tell me: House leadership WILL bring up the tax bill for a vote IF Senate passes it.

Of course they will. They're not all idiots...just a large minority of them.

Over in the Senate the GOP has told Harry Reid they won't approve any business until the tax bill is done. Reid is now tabling the Dream Act which will delay a vote until next week on that piece of garbage.

UPDATE: Back in September I wrote this:

We know that at this point Democrats are unwilling to make time to vote on the extension of the Bush tax cuts. After all, they're too busy bringing comedians in to testify before congressional subcommittees. They're promising to take care of the tax cut extension after the November election

Really?

Does anyone believe that will really happen?

What would be their motivation to keep tax rates at all levels from jumping up on January 1st? Are they going to do it to reward the voters who just threw their party into the minority in the House and took away a number of Senate seats? Hardly. The Democrats who return in November will be madder than wet hens at the voters, and many of them will be packing up their offices and laying off their staff. That won't make for a very happy Capitol Hill.

Now, from Mark Knoller of CBS:

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says of tax cut deal: "We were told take it or leave it, and we are going to leave it."

Formal statement House Dems: "The decision means the package will not B brought 2 the House floor 4 a vote ths year."

Hello tax increases, goodbye economy.

By the way, Van Hollen was in charge of the DNCC this year, the organization whose job it is to get Democrats elected to the House. He lost 63 seats. No wonder he's a little prickly these days.

I'm not waiting for the statement from Obama complaining about Democrat obstructionism.