From the Washington Times - Facing a backlash from Democrats over the tax-cut deal he struck with the GOP, a fiery President Obama lashed out at members of his own party Tuesday, telling them not to let a partisan fight scuttle the chance to keep taxes low for middle-class Americans. Many Democrats have revolted against the deal — which would combine a two-year extension of the Bush-era income-tax cuts and a renewed estate-tax cut with a payroll-tax holiday and an extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless — saying it marks a retreat from Mr. Obama's campaign promise to let the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire. They had pressed for the president to fight down to the wire. Read full story here:
President Feeling Heat from SORE LOSERS
Posted by
Jim Spence
on Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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National News,
U.S. Politics
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