Obama finally stands his ground by Dana Milbank

[sasha031]

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of President Obama.
I'm not particularly proud of the tax-cut deal he and the Republicans negotiated. But I'm proud that he has finally stood firm against the likes of Peter DeFazio.

DeFazio, a backbencher from Oregon and one of the hard-core liberals in the House, authored Thursday's Democratic caucus resolution that attempts to prevent the tax compromise from coming to a vote. "We're standing up to him," DeFazio exulted. He claimed "nearly unanimous" opposition to the tax package - a curious assertion when only 54 of 255 House Democrats signed a letter opposing the deal.

But rather than caving in to liberals' complaints and allowing Democrats on Capitol Hill to take the lead - as Obama did to his peril over the past two years - he has pushed back with the full force of his office. In private persuasion and in public talk, the White House has delivered to disgruntled liberals a message summed up by Vice President Biden in a private session with lawmakers on Wednesday: Take it or leave it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121002298.html

[ibegurpard]

1. I say "leave it"

milquetoastbank has been a corporate water-carrier forever.

[QC]

2. It says a lot, none of it good, that the president's great defenders lately

are the likes of Krauthammer, Brooks, Milbank, and Sully.

[sasha031]

6. Richard Wolfe was just on Ring of Fire with David Bender

full of praises for the WH.

[QC]

14. Now Laura Ingraham is being trotted out to defend the president.

How long before someone points out that George W. Bush once said something nice about him?

[sasha031]

15. Wow, heard he was getting praise on faux the other night too

he should be very proud

[BeyondGeography]

3. I look forward the display of his "newly discovered spine" against the Republicans

doubting, of course, that Milbank will have the same gleeful reaction when that happens.

[bajamary]

4. Fighting for a Return to the Gilded Age of the 1920's

Our entire nation is on the brink of having the rich make good on their decades long battle to overturn FDR's New Deal. I do not want to return to the GLory Days of the Gilded Age of the 1920's.

This is a battle between those that have "it" Big Bucks and Little Taxes If Any, and the rest of us, the 98% of Americans those of us who are middle class, working and poorer people of America regardless of color, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Threats by people, pundits and politicians will never make me support a candidate who clearly values those that have and not those of us who are not in the top income brackets on this planet.

Mr. Obama has chosen his true allies, the bankers and hedge fund kings and uber-wealthy who quite rarely pay taxes, or who pay such a small percentage of their income.

While the tax bill proposed by Mr. Obama and his Republican allies will actually raise the amount of taxes for those of us who earn less than $20,000. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the only groups likely to face a tax increase are those near the bottom of the income scale -- individuals who make less than $20,000 and families with earnings below $40,000.

This support by Mr Obama of a tax plan for the rich and by the rich is beyond a line in anyone's sandbox. Enough is really enough.

[myrna minx]

5. I'll leave it, thank you very much. n/t

[Mass]

7. I've never had a lot of respect for Milbank. This confirms my feeling.

[Karmadillo]

8. He never should have let the liberals walk all over him when they made him

nationalize the criminal banks, withdraw from our criminal wars, punish criminal oil companies, and force single-payer on the country. The country needs a break from this liberal dictatorship!

[villager]

9. Yes. Against his supporters. Now if he could only do that against the GOP.

n/t

[mike_c]

10. leave it....

No more wealth transfer from the working class to the rich.

[Moondog]

11. Well, that makes it easy.

Via con Dios, Mr President.

[EFerrari]

12. Dana Milbank is ridiculous. Seriously.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

13. President Obama and the Republicans. Not President Obama and the Democrats

thats what we have.

[rocktivity]

16. Obama showed great moral courage by saying "Take it or leave it"

But the Dem Congress aren't showing great moral courage by saying "We'll leave it"? Who wrote this crap?

Oh...Dana Milbank...

:boring:
rocktivity