Does it bother you that the Obama administration is spouting Republican BS to smear Democrats?

[Karmadillo]

First, as Democrats have always argued, the restoration of tax cuts is not a tax increase. Second, as Bernie Sanders eloquently pointed out, UC benefits would be extended regardless of the fate of the tax cuts. And third, didn't we hear the "you better vote for this or the world will end" shock doctrine when the Bush administration was lobbying for the much unneeded bankster bailout?

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/12/obama-aide-senate-will-save-tax-cut-plan/1

Obama aide: Senate will save tax cut plan

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In addition, all the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year, Axelrod noted -- so if Congress does nothing, everyone's taxes will rise.

"I think every single person in that building does not want taxes to go up on January 1st, does not want to see 2 million people lose their unemployment insurance," Axelrod said on ABC's This Week. Everybody understands what the implications for the economy would be ... I believe that there will be a coming together around it."

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