NOT!
So Mr./Mrs./Miss./Trandgender/It reporter, did Obama make it just a little difficult for you to still call him a moderate Democrat? No, it’s not difficult – because your shriveled souls have already been sold. Mr./Mrs./Miss./Trandgender/It reporter, was Obama reaching out to Republicans when he met with some of the most leftist organizations in the entire country yesterday? Do you think he was telling them it was time to come together in good faith to compromise on lowering the deficit and avoiding the fiscal meltdown? Mr./Mrs./Miss./Trandgender/It reporter, will you ask him today at his press conference if he’ll agree to cuts now that Republicans agree to raising revenue by closing loopholes and reforming the tax code?
The list of leftists Obama hosted from Politico:
A White House official has confirmed POLITICO’s list of CEOs scheduled to attend a meeting Wednesday with President Barack Obama on the fiscal cliff, and sent over the list of union and progressive leaders who will sit down with him Tuesday:
- Mary Kay Henry, SEIU
- Lee Saunders, AFSCME
- Dennis Van Roekel, NEA
- Rich Trumka, AFL-CIO
- Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress
- John Podesta, Center for American Progress
- Bob Greenstein, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Laura Burton Capps, Common Purpose Project
- Max Richtman, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
- Justin Ruben, MoveOn
- Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change
This list hits many of the major unions and liberal organizations that are urging the president to hold firm on his commitment to end tax cuts for wealthier families and to protect major entitlement programs.
Enough fantasy. Obama is a hard line leftist. He will not give in without a fight. Republicans won a semi-hard fought fight in 2010 to extend all tax cuts, but now that Obama will not face another election, he doesn’t have a wall to his back.
Asked about past confrontations when Obama drew a line in the sand only to wipe it away when Republicans wouldn’t budge, Van Roekel said the election may have changed the dynamics in polarized Washington.
“His opponents have to view him differently,” Van Roekel said. “Before, his opponents could leverage things. But now they’ve lost lots of that leverage because he’s not running again.”
Carney noted that “the president has made very clear that everyone, throughout this process—not just in this past week since the election, but for some time now—that the whole point of compromise is that nobody gets to achieve their maximalist position.”
Still, Carney said, Obama will veto any bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans. “That has long been his position; it has not changed,” Carney said.
Also, Obama is going to have to give these leftist groups the payback for them getting out the vote for him. So this fight is going to be bloody. The question is if the Republicans in Congress are going to draw blood and deflect the leftist blows or are they going to cower and let America get bloodied by the leftists.
Obama will be meeting with business leaders today and civic leaders on Friday.
The thing that has not happened, and better happen quickly, is a strong concerted effort of all Republican and Conservative groups to brand and message our idea of raising revenue. We need to effectively change the language from taxes to revenue and undercut the Democrat’s mastery of demagoguing an issue. If we can do that, the President and the leftists will fall hard. They will lose their base and be thrown into an internal battle.
THIS FIGHT IS BIG!
Make your voice heard now and don’t let this get away!
If you don’t want to call, then e-mail them.
The so called “moderates” that show for this are going through nothing but an interview process allowing Dear Leader to determine who he can use as chumps or retaliate against. Nothing more. And if you think this is bad, just wait until after the next election cycle when he’ll really put the pedal to the metal.
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What a progressive pack of professional poverty pimps.
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Tax and Spend. My way or the highway. This is Obama’s way. Republicans should not back down.
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I disagree.
I think we should call Obama’s bluff.
Obama *wants* the GOP to defend tax cuts for the wealthy. He wants nothing better than to be able to tell the working class that the GOP cares only about the wealthy.
So I say: GIVE Obama the tax increase on the wealthy he wants. Because once it’s enacted, it will become clear that the amount of revenue it generates won’t make even a tiny dent in the financial hole we’re in.
Then Obama will be forced to propose tax increases on the middle class, something Obama promised never to do.
Never underestimate the power of a demo. And it will be worth giving this demo to the American public. Don’t worry, the wealthy aren’t going to become impoverished by this tax increase.
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While I can understand your argument to watch the world burn at the hands of the Democrats, I have a family to worry about – let alone that thing called the Constitution – that will burn along with it.
In my piece I made it clear that the message needs to be owned by the Republicans that the issue is revenue, not taxes. We just never say the word taxes or argue the point of taxes – just keep changing the word to revenue.
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