Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal Doesn't Mean Future Accords

There was no "compromis­e" here -- This was Obama adopting Republican talking points, redefining Democrats' ideology into Republican ideology.  

By saying "ending the Bush tax cuts is raising taxes" as Obama did for the first time on December 4th, is embracing Republican spin.  It was straight out of the Republican­s' playbook.

The first we saw that Obama was actually going to go back on his 2008 campaign pledge to end Bush's tax cuts was David Axelrod on Hardball (12/2/10):

"I think the most important thing to do now is the things American people expect and want.  One is to make sure they don't wake up on January 1st with a very large tax increase because the tax cuts were scheduled to expire at that time and there's a great sense of urgency on the part of the president.  I think that is shared on the part of the republican­s to make sure that doesn't happen." 

The media (who live on the phone with White House aides) couldn't change their own language fast enough, and began using the Obama/GOP talking points.

It should come as no surprise that Obama would use GOP talking points when just two weeks ago in the New York Times:

"Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat (Blue Dog = Republican­)."

How should Obama have spoken about the Bush tax cuts, ending them?  How would he have said it if he wasn't a Blue dog?

"Democrats are stopping the flow of red ink, getting America's fiscal house in order, paving the way for job creation, restoratio­n of the middle class and the possibilit­y of wealth creation for all".




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