Obama and the Bush tax cuts

What is wrong with this President. When was he neutered? Can you imagine Bill Clinton with an opportunity like this.

The opposition party has just won big gains in the midterms and their number one issue is to make sure that tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans are extended. Better yet if they do not get these extended they will let the tax cuts given to the other 98 percent of Americans expire as well. That is you and me and everyone we know.


What a blessing. Can you imagine it. I have a bill right here in my hand that will extend the tax cuts for all but those who make less than 250K. But our Republican friends feel it is more important to protect those who have profited the most and suffered the least in this recession than to protect you.

Deliver a speech, go on television. You cannot lose on this issue. The Republicans will blink. It is a certainty that they will.

Here is the issue. Obama does not want to politic. I believe he thinks it is beneath him. I do not think he enjoys it. He is in the wrong business if he does not. When you are handed an issue like this and you let your chief advisers float a trial balloon that you know you have to compromise on this issue you are getting bad advice.


America likes a fighter. Fight. You will not get a better issue to extol the differences between the two parties than this.