Obama Tax Cuts Rejected In House

Obama was by the Rep House to preserve the Bush tax cuts.

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"forced"?

Obama wasn't put into power to cave to Republican threats and enact Republican legislation.  As a matter of fact, Obama wasn't elected to go behind the backs of Congressional Democrats and secretly negotiate and write legislation with Republicans in the House or the Senate.  

Isn't that what you ObamaZombies said when I was writing about Obama's lying about undercutting Congress and making secret lousy deals with Big Insurance and PhRma?

Ten million more people voted for Obama, a black man in America, than for any other presidential candidate ever in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade.  He persuaded them that he was going to change the system, end the corporatocracy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate tool.

Democrats didn't need to do anything but let Bush's tax cuts expire.  All of them.  If it would have gotten that far, it would have put Republicans directly in the hot seat with middle class and poor Americans (they vote Republican, too) to enact middle class tax cut legislation without tax cuts for the rich.  

And here's the most important point to recall, what Obama said about the deal:

OBAMA:  And, as I said, there are a whole bunch of things that they [Republica­ns] are giving up.  I mean, the truth of the matter is, from the Republican perspectiv­e, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the college tuition tax credit, the Child Tax Credit -- all those things that are so important for so many families across the country -- those are things they really opposed.  And so temporaril­y, they are willing to go along with that, presumably because they think they can beat me on that over the course of the next two years.

Everything that Obama said that "Republica­ns are giving up" in this deal, that Republican­s are unhappy about but are going along with, were either Republican legislatio­n to begin with or Republican­s eagerly campaigned on because their supporters liked the legislatio­n in spite of it not being "Republica­n-like".  

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