The real party of NO, the GOP, steps it up

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Far be it from me to praise Obama but hasn't there a lot of complaining by the left that the GOP wasn't willing to work with the President? And now that he is compromising, the left howls at Obama in discontent?

You're ignoring that the GOP hasn't compromised in 2 years, and the GOP still hasn't compromised one whit, while Obama compromises before negotiations begin, then does it again. Compromise takes two sides. The GOP has yet to step up in two years.

Yes, the left is quite fed up with Obama giving in over and over again to the GOP, and he'll face a progressive primary challenge if he doesn't turn it around.

Scuds: Bush's tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 got passed in the first place because the compromise with the Dems was the sunset date on the taxes.

We're broke. All the tax cuts should expire. We're in a recession. If anyone gets a tax cut, it should be the lowest earners, not the richest 2% in the country. That is so beyond absurd it's unbelievable. That tiny tax increase will provide 700 trillion to lower the deficit over 10 years. We need that money.

I find it amusing reading about the unnamed liberals in the House threatening to not honor the Senate and Presidents deal. Their love of the progressive agenda and hatred of "the rich" are so great they they are willing to be obstructionist toward their own President and with seemingly little regard for the middle class and unemployed they supposedly give a damn about.

That makes no sense. The more progressive are threatening to obstruct their President because not because of your imagined and absurd "hatred of the rich" (that's hilarious - you guys are good at playing victims, aren't you?) but because the President threw our deficit under the bus with the extension of tax cuts for the richest Americans, he put out that he'd give that up before negotiations even began (which infuriated his base), and the Pres tied unemployment benefits to the tax cuts, when the party majority absolutely wanted it kept separately.

Just going by what these "unnamed liberals" (they are not anonymous) Democrats have said about it in public.