Dems to Play Hardball in Tax Fight?

Greg Sargent, Washington Post
There’s a lot of chatter about Senator Patty Murray’s big speech today, in which she is claiming that Dems hold the leverage in the coming “fiscal cliff” talks over the Bush tax cuts, and that they will let all the tax cuts expire if necessary, in order to force the GOP’s hand.The idea is that if all the cuts expire, Dems can come back and renew just the middle class cuts, and dare Republicans to vote against it: 

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