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A friend from Virginia emails about Obama’s deal with Republicans on extending the tax cuts:

I hate to say this but I do have my ear to the ground with a lot of “regular” folks and the way this impending “deal” is being described by most of them is that Republicans are pushing to keep the tax cuts which create jobs and the Democrats are pushing to extend unemployment benefits so lazy people can sit on their asses a while longer and live off those of us who work hard.

Is this because (a) this is just how America rolls, (b) Democrats don’t know how to communicate with the American public, (c) Fox News now controls our country completely, (d) something else, or (e) all of the above?