The Republicans claim their problem with the Payroll Tax Cut Deal is that it is just for two months instead of one year.
House leaders insist theirs is the principled stand because they want a year-long extension, not a two-month one.
The House Republican leaders argue that the two-month extension creates uncertainty for workers and employers and is unworkable.
Congress should “stop, do our work and extend for one year,” Boehner said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” today. He said a two-month addition creates uncertainty for employers as they budget for 2012.
Republicans, many of whom said just a few weeks ago that they did not want an extension of the tax cut at all, have now pivoted in the opposite direction, saying they would accept a one-year deal or nothing at all, citing the uncertainty of a stopgap plan.
The White House should call the House Republicans' bluff and agree to "compromise" by extending the Senate bill for one year instead of two months. Agree to just cross the "two months" out of the bill and insert "one year."
Problem solved. All done, all finished, and home for the holidays to boot.