Bush Tax Cut Extension: DOA?

``... the extension of the Bush tax cuts which until early this week was taken for granted... may have been all but killed after preliminary discussions between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell, the chamber’s top Republican, “did not go well.” Bloomberg reports that not only is the Senate's #2 Democrat "not very optimistic" about the option of extensions, but nobody even has a clue what is going on...''