How out of touch and crass can one party and their media be?

too bad the agreement was made and signed after the mid-terms when the Dems no longer had control and all the GOP could talk about was a 'mandate' and all..

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For weeks after Republicans took control of the House and increased their numbers in the Senate in the November midterm elections, Obama and congressional Democrats insisted that the Bush tax-cut extension be applied only for low and middle-income taxpayers. But Republicans insisted that the extension be applied to all taxpayers, including the nation's millionaires and billionaires.

Senate Republicans all but shut down the upper chamber, refusing to allow votes on any bills unless and until the Bush tax cuts were extended across the board.

http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/26-26/4717-while-super-rich-get-tax-cut-extension-middle-class-get-rude-surprise-a-tax-increase

but nice try blaming the Dems..

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Obama said he made the compromise to break the stalemate over taxes to ensure rates don’t rise for middle-income Americans when the current ones, enacted in 2001 and 2003, expire on Dec. 31. He said that while he still believes the nation can’t afford to permanently extend the reduced top tax rates, raising taxes for the rest of taxpayers would damage the fragile economic recovery.

Without the deal, middle-income families would become “collateral damage for political warfare here in Washington,” Obama said in televised remarks yesterday. He criticized Republicans for insisting on permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans “regardless of the cost of impact on the deficit.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-06/payroll-tax-holiday-on-the-table-as-negotiators-debate-bush-rate-extension.html

the GOP drug their feet,blocked votes,whined and threw every obstruction they had to fuck up the system. just like always, and there was no choice butto give them their way, which was an extension on the wealthiest along with the middle class..or they would fuck the rest of the country by letting all cuts expire, not to mention other issues as well that were up for grabs at that time...and really, who cares if they can't pay for that extension (haha-sure they care about deficits)..as long as the Koch Bros get their tax-cut the GOP will spend us into oblivion..

and I'm really tired of this fake idea you have and promote that just because the Dems had the house and senate they were able to do everything they wanted.. you have a very distorted memory and idea of how Congress actually works, since the GOP proved that being the minority doesn't stop them from obstructing every single item they wanted to obstruct....add that with this idea that the Dems are like the Borg-ish GOP, who all vote as one regardless of any personal conflicts...and you really do live in that bubble..

There are all kinds and styles of Dems.. conservative,middle,liberal.. some like the death-penalty and hate 'choice'.. some hate guns and love socialism.. now you can paint them all as Borg like you own party, who all vote as one single mind if you wish, but you'd be misinformed to do so..

not that that really matters with you any longer..