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And Obama was thinking what, exactly, when he agreed to extend those tax cuts?
He was thinking he could get an extension of unemployment benefits. Which he did. Politics is MESSY.
Also, the Republicans were holding the Zadroga Bill, DADT and the Dream Act (which failed anyway) hostage until the Senate agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts. It’s some of the most selfish and horrible bargaining I’ve ever seen–refusing health care to heros and equal rights to gay soldiers all because of tax cuts for people making over $250,000. It really makes me sick.
If only President Obama had large majorities in Congress when he came into office, none of this would have happened.
Um, he did. He blew it.
Obama didn’t blow it. Congress did.
I don’t really get why people have this expectation of the president being anything but a PR puppet with the power to cockblock potential legislation.
I guess it’s easier to carry on the lazy assumption instead of facing to the reality that getting enough of a supermajority of Democrats on both houses and getting them to cooperate with the party platform is fairly difficult work with an electorate that’s successfully kept uninformed and thus remains easy prey to ad campaigns.