Reply #50: And the GOP would have effectively re-spun it to "Dems are RAISING TAXES ON SMALL BUSINESS" and [View All]

[RBInMaine]

since they had the majority THEY would have been blamed for allowing the middle class tax cuts and unemployment insurance to end. That is what the majority of the public will say. Obama did the right thing. The GOP wanted PERMANENCE on their policies, and he instead issued a compromise offer that THEY knew THEY would have to take or be toast. The GOP would NEVER have given in to just extending taxes for the middle class, and you would NEVER have had the groundswell of "progressive pressure" from the public that some fantasizers here think would happen. "Progressives" sit home and sulk and whine and bitch these days while teabaggers take to the streets and the halls of congress. Mad at Obama? How about being mad at the non-existent "progressive movement" that can't win off-year elections and won't invest in alternative media? While TeaBaggers took over the healthcare debate, where the hell was the "progressive movement?"

PASS THE COMPROMISE TAX BILL NOW !