Obama lashes out at the left for being criticizing his inexpert handling of the Republican led push to extend tax cuts. Rachel pretty much beat him up.
Furious Democrats threaten to block passage of this deficit building catatrophe.
Across the board, Democrats who attended the meeting said, Obama’s deal was deemed too costly, too tilted toward the rich and too much of a cave to Republicans.
“The wealthiest few in the country come out like gangbusters,” said Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.), a Blue Dog who said he would oppose the deal. Many other Blue Dogs, Pomeroy said, would also vote down the package, on the grounds that it adds heavily to the debt.
Obama, particularly with many of the administrative excesses revealed in the Cablegate releases, has become an ever increasing disappointment for progressives.
