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what the heck is going on there? senators have left town. why? because they passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cut. they passed unemployment benefits coming to people in the new year. but now the g.o.p. in the house say they re going to kill this thing this morning. 9:00 a.m. is when the showdown will happen today. they re looking for this long-term fix. i get that. is this the right time and place to be doing that? i have a scary suspicion that this is going to fall real hard on the house republicans and the general public isn t going to be happy about it. bottom line is the premise of their argument is correct. you re going to draw the entire political system, for two months, you re going to have a tax cut. we ve gotten this far and we ve agreed on the pipeline. can we at least get a year out of this so we don t have this intramural fight again? what they re going to do is take it up. we told you yesterday at this time, 24 hours ago, they were going t ....