NP - Sign Ant- Obama-GOP Tax Cut Petition

[Henry M]

It's horrendously naive to use phrase like "fight for them" except in
a war, boxing, or MMF, i.e. it's meaningless.

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Henry Mu
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/12/how_the_white_house_cut_the_de.html
>
> My conversations with various progressives over the past 24 hours have
> convinced me that the problem is less the specifics of the deal --
> though liberals legitimately dislike the tax cuts for the rich, and
> rightly point out that Obama swore to let them expire -- than the way
> in which it was reached. Put simply, Obama and the Democrats didn't
> fight for them. There were no veto threats or serious effort to take
> the case to the public.
>
> Instead, the White House disappeared into a closed room with the
> Republicans and cut a deal that they'd made no effort to sell to
> progressives. When the deal was cut, the president took an oblique
> shot at their preferences, saying "the American people didn’t send us
> here to wage symbolic battles or win symbolic victories." And this
> came a mere week or two after the White House announced a federal pay
> freeze. The pattern, for progressives, seems clear: The White House
> uses them during elections, but doesn't listen to, or consult them,
> while governing. In fact, it insults them, and then tells them to
> quiet down, they got the best bargain possible, even if it wasn't the
> one they'd asked for, or been promised.
>