Reply #12: The Bush tax cut extension is basically unforgivable to them.

[joshcryer]

Nevermind that people were going to hemmorage if they got a payroll tax hike in the middle of a recession, that they had to pass it in a lame duck session and that without question the hands of the Democrats were tied (we didn't even have 60 votes in the Senate at that time). Nevermind that unemployment benefits were about to run dry. Nevermind that AMT and CTC were respectively being held hostage and got a boost.

Oh, no, Bernie Sanders does an 8 hour rhetorical slam against Obama and every single thing that helps is basically rendered irrelevant.