As time goes on, I am more and more appalled at the President that I worked to elect - including financial support. I am no genius, but, it seems to me if Obama had shifted the focus to Republicans, who are only interested in passing legislation to benefit the rich, to their lack of concern for the middle class / main street... They could care less about maintaining the tax rate for poor and middle class, followed up by the contempt they have for the long term unemployed. If the President and the rest of the Dems stayed on this message (like the opposition does with everything), the Republican hypocrites would have dropped like a house of cards!!!! By the bye, what happened to the concern about the deficit, Repugs?

Why didn't Obama try this? You tell me!

I have completely lost faith in the man! If he wasn't black, he could switch parties and win a second term! The reason that isn't an option is the color of his skin! I have come to the conclusion that this game is completely rigged! Third party, anyone?

Reaganomics voodoo economy a success ,even a republican zombie orchestrating it

Well it's about time that the Democrats started fighting the Repubs and supporting their own party's President and the campaign promises that they TOO endorsed during his election campaign.
Maybe this is what Obama was aiming for all along?

"Nothing changes if nothing changes."

Obama is a Republican in sheep's clothing as he too, is indebted to the corporate interests, as well as to the racist assassins currently at bay.

The Dems finally stood up to the Republican blackmailing kidnappers, who do not give a damn about anybody but themselves and their plutocrat benefactors.

The time is now, for all of the rest of to stand up, and say, "I am as mad as hell, and I am not taking IT anymore!!"

I expect Vic to post an ignorant rant about the president, but the rest of you need to take your heads out of wherever you stuck them! If the Dems in congress even knew what a spine was, it would never have come to this. Now, they have the unbelievable gall to complain about Obama trying to make something out of the mess that their fecklessness and cowardice caused in the first place? I'm pretty sure that they knew about these tax rates and all before this month began, and they sat on their hands and let the situation get to this. The only thing more amazing than their gall in complaining about the mess they caused is the effrontery of so many "progressives," many of whom post here, are actually buying their line of BS!

I used to wonder at how so many people can be fooled into thinking that giving away the country's money is going to help with the Bush deficits, but seeing how so many of you are letting those spineless weasels blame blame Obama for the fact that they didn't have the stones to do anything about taxes and unemployment when they had a huge majority, I'm starting to see how such things happen. I agree with what they suddenly discovered they want to do, but I'm not going to agree with their assertion that it's not their fault that they never tried to do it before now. That's just stupid!

Kudos to the Congressional Democrats who had the cajones to stand up and say NO to a bad deal. The Obama we see now on TV not only going along with the lopsided "compromise" of a tax deal, but defending it and saying the progressive base opposes it because they don't understand is NOT the same person I voted for. I voted for the sharp, bold, progressive Obama. Not the wishy-washy, borderline Republican Obama. Maybe it will take his own party standing up to him to make him realize he has a choice to make- side with his own party and the people who elected him to office, or side with the very same people who have been giving him hell since the second he took office and will continue calling him a "socialist" no matter what he does.

I like the Larry Summers rant that if this tax "deal" isn't passed, that a "double-dip" recession is eminent. Geez, the ultimate banker is using the ol' Bush extortion and threats tactic to gain congressional "support" for their obviously written for them by them legislation.

Remember how Congress had to pass the banking bailout because without it, the economy would have collapsed, or so the Treasury Secretary warned/threatened? Sound familiar or like a broken record?

Here, here! Peter's my congressman. I'm very happy and proud of him right now.

I was thrilled to do a show at his recent rally in Coos Bay, OR and I'm so glad he won re-election. I'm sure he would credit my show as the turning point. Just kidding, Congressman DeFazio.