Right-Wingers Who Think They Got 'Rolled' by Obama In Cliff Deal Are Totally Crazy

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http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/right-wingers-who-think-they-got-rolled-obama-cliff-deal-are-totally-crazy


Rep. Eric Cantor (R) arrives at the US Capitol on January 1, 2013 in Washington. The number two US House Republican emerged Tuesday as a key holdout against the fiscal cliff deal.

I thought that by this point, I was beyond the capacity to be shocked by the delusions held by the American Right. But my jaw dropped when I read that a number of high-profile conservatives are outraged about the fiscal slope deal, and believe they have been “rolled” by Obama. The very notion is wildly delusional.

Despite the fact that big majorities of the population have consistently told pollsters that they want to see the “Bush tax cuts” end for the top 2 percent of households – and taxes kept low for the other 98 percent – it's been quite clear that the GOP's first priority was to hang onto those cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Let's consider how they've done.

In 2008, Obama ran on letting the Bush cuts for high earners expire while protecting the middle class, and won a landslide victory over John McCain.

But those rates for the top earners remained for the entirety of his first term, including the two years when Dems held both chambers of Congress.

That brings us to 2012. Obama runs on the same promise again – let the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 percent expire, prevent a tax hike from hitting the other 98 percent. He defeated Mitt Romney decisively.
Two months later, we hit this contrived fiscal slope. And we started down it – at midnight on New Year's Eve, the Bush tax cuts finally expired.

[graham4anything]

1. the democrats never had 60. Another smear Obama piece in the media. How quaint.

President Obama roped the dopes again.

people who say the dems had 60 forget that it took Al Franken more than 8 months to be seated after he won in Nov.

the seat was empty.

convienient in these President Obama smear hit pieces by the media extremists on each side to forget tidy neat facts like that.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Their whining is such a crock! Only 0.7% of Americans had their tax rates

go up and they got sweet deals on the estate tax, and capital gains. Cry me a river!!!

They are impossible to please. Period.

[bemildred]

3. They are comparing themselves to drunks now? nt

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