Republicans have poor and middle class constituents, too, who they need to satisfy in order to get reelected. Republicans are t3rrified of them, because they're very well organized. The Republican base knows how to make their elected representatives jump -- Republicans hear from their poor and middle class constituents when they cut government services for the People, like Medicare. Republicans cave when Democrats hold their feet to the fire. [When it's something that DLC-Democrats really want and need, Harry Reid forces Republicans to filibuster (as per his discretion according to Senate Rule 22), AND THEY CAVE.]
Everything that Obama said that "Republicans are giving up" in this deal, Republicans either initiated or eagerly campaigned on because their supporters liked it and there would be h3// to pay for them if they were responsible for them ending:
OBAMA: And, as I said, there are a whole bunch of things that they 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.
'U.S. House Republican Leader John Boehner said he would vote for middle-class tax cuts sought by the Democratic Obama administration even if it means eliminating reductions for wealthier Americans'.
This is an absolutely wretched deal (but standard for Obama, with
a long record of negotiating lousy deals on ordinary citizens' behalf); if Obama was in private practice and 'Lawyer Obama' had negotiated a deal like this for a client, he would be sued, successful
ly, for malpractic
e.
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