Commentary: Like Obama, will Ohios Brown move to middle in tax vote?

Obama applauds Senate test vote on tax cut plan
President Barack Obama is praising a test vote in the Senate supporting the Compromise tax plan he negotiated with Republicans. He says it proves both parties can work together. The president spoke at the White House on Monday after the Senate surpassed the 60-vote threshold it needed to advance the Legislation toward final passage. A vote that would send the proposal to the House is expected Tuesday. Obama says the plan would help create jobs by providing 13 months of jobless benefits to the un...

Tax-cut deal clears big hurdle in Senate
In an overwhelming Bipartisan vote, the Senate on Monday cleared a path for the tax-cut deal President Obama struck with congressional Republicans last week, with even former staunch opponents of the Bush-era Tax Cuts voting for their extension. The 83-15 vote ends a Filibuster attempt by Liberal Democrats and gives a boost to the deal ahead of an expected showdown in the House this week, where Democratic leaders have said they will try to alter the $857 billion package. "This proves that both p...

Cloture Vote to Advance Obama-GOP Tax Deal Passes with Bipartisan Support, Now Headed for Senate Vote
Monday, December 13, 2010 By Matt Cover Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) (CNSNews.com) - The tax rate and Unemployment benefit Compromise package gained enough votes on Monday to move forward for a full Senate vote, surviving several threatened Filibusters. The measure is expected to pass with Bipartisan support later in the week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) held the vote open for several hours on Monday due to inclement weather in much...

Tax deal clears key Senate hurdle
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The hotly contested tax deal negotiated by President Barack Obama and Republican leaders cleared a key Senate procedural hurdle Monday, with both parties strongly supporting a motion to end debate on the measure. Final Senate approval could come as early as Tuesday on the package that includes extending for two years the Bush-era Tax Cuts set to expire December 31, as well as extending Unemployment Benefits for 13 months, cutting the Payroll Tax by 2 percentage points for a ye...

President Obama is a Lying Dirtbag
This really pisses me off. The President on extending the Bush-era Tax Cuts to everyone, including the "wealthy." "When they expire in two years, I will fight to end them," Obama said. "Just as I suspect the Republican Party may fight to end the middle-class Tax Cuts that I've championed and that they've opposed." What a fucking scumbag. Maybe this is part of his new "charm offensive" to woo Republican committee chairmen. It's certainly a continuation of the liberal scaremongering that extendin...

Pres. Obama Remarks on Senate Procedural Tax Cut Vote
President Obama praised the Senate for moving forward on the Tax Cuts and Unemployment Benefits bill. After another round of debate the Senate is expected to vote to send the bill to the House. The President spoke with reporters in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House....

Senate Moves Ahead on the Tax Deal (Updated)
The Senate is taking its first step to preserve the Bush-era Tax Cuts — and extend Unemployment Benefits for millions. At least 62 senators have voted to start debating the bill that keeps Tax Cuts in place for the Middle Class and the wealthiest Americans, meaning the measure will not be filibustered. The bill also cuts inheritance taxes and ensures emergency Unemployment relief will last another 13 months. It also includes a 2% tax holiday on Social Security Payroll taxes, and would ad...

Obama Hails Senate Tax Cut Vote
President Obama hailed Monday’s vote in the Senate to move his tax Compromise forward and called on the House to “act quickly on this important matter,” despite concerns from both parties. In a very brief statement to the press in the White House briefing room, Mr. Obama acknowledged the frustration among Democrats and Republicans about the details of the tax deal. But he called that “the nature of compromise” and said that, taken as a whole, the Legislation will provide a boo

Romney: Why tax cut is a bad deal
Death and taxes, it is said, are life's only two certainties. But in the wake of President Obama's tax Compromise with congressional Republicans, only death retains the status of certainty: The future for taxes has been left up in the air. And uncertainty is not a friend of investment, growth and job creation. The deal has several key features. It reduces Payroll taxes, extends Unemployment Benefits and keeps current Tax Rates intact. So far, so good. But intermixed with the benefits are conside...

Obama applauds Senate test vote on tax cut plan
(12-13) 14:45 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is praising a test vote in the Senate supporting the Compromise tax plan he negotiated with Republicans. He says it proves both parties can work together. The president spoke at the White House on Monday after the Senate surpassed the 60-vote threshold it needed to advance the Legislation toward final passage. A vote that would send the proposal to the House is expected Tuesday. Obama says the plan would help create jobs by providing ...

Most Americans Support Tax Deal, New Polls Say
As Congress nears a vote on the Tax Cut deal reached between President Obama and Republicans, two new polls out today find Americans broadly supportive of the plan, including majorities of Republicans, Independents and Democrats alike. Nearly 7 in 10 Americans in an ABC News/Washington Post poll said they support the package, which the poll noted would include extending the Bush-era tax cuts and Unemployment Benefits, cutting Social Security Payroll taxes by 2 percentage points and increasing t...

Tax-Cut Thing Passes Senate, Moves On To China For Approval
After much talking, balking, and sulking, the Obama-Republican tax-cut package has passed the Senate by a vote of 69 to 10. So it looks like everything in the next two years will be passed by a refreshing, broad consensus, and all it takes is Democrats pretty much giving up all their ground on each issue. It is truly a new era, all thanks to Republicans whining until they got what they wanted and many buckets full of tears shed by John Boehner in the process. Since this passed the Senate, the We...

Obama: Senate Tax Cut Vote 'Proves Both Parties Can Work Together'
President Obama urged the House to take up the Tax Cut Compromise on its way to approval in the Senate today, and said that the success of the Controversial plan to extend all the Bush tax cuts as well as Unemployment Insurance is an example of Bipartisan success. "This proves that both parties can, in fact, work together to grow our economy and look out for the American People," Obama said. Though voting was underway in the Senate when he spoke, more than 70 Senators had voted in favor of clo...

Senate reaches enough votes to move forward...
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Obama-GOP tax bill passes key Senate hurdle
Far-reaching Legislation to avert a Jan. 1 income-tax increase for millions won overwhelming support in a Senate test vote on Monday, backed by an uneasy and unusual alliance between the White House and lawmakers in both parties. Even before the vote was complete, President Barack Obama said the show of support “proves that both parties can in fact work together to grow our economy and look out for the American People.” Senate passage, expected within a day or two, would set up a fin...

There Are at Most 13 Deficit Hawks in the Senate
A Deficit hawk is somebody willing to vote against bills that increase the National Debt--that do not contain within themselves provisions to recapture revenue and cut spending that lead to a reduction in the projected national Debt within, say, ten years. There are at most 13 Deficit hawks in today's U.S. Senate: Bipartisan support as tax deal advances in Senate: By James Politi in Washington: The deal struck by the White House and Republican leaders to prevent the expiry of Bush-era Tax Cuts...

Tax Compromise Moves to the Senate
The Senate is scheduled today to vote on the Bipartisan Compromise reached last week,Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act (S.Amdt. 4753). The bill would protect middle-class families and small businesses, spur job creation, and extend Unemployment Benefits for those still looking for a job. Patch the Alternative Minimum Tax and protect millions of middle-class families. President Obama has made clear that while he disagrees with the provisions that extend tax ...

The Tax Deal's Popularity, Ctd
A reader writes: I’m a progressive Democrat and I am bewildered, appalled and exasperated by the reaction of most of my political cohort to the tax deal. My reasons are partly strategic, along the lines of your observations that it’s far better for Obama than what could have been expected and gooses The Economy leading up to 2012. But my main concern is that all these Democrats (and Bernie Sanders), who profess to care about the Middle Class and unemployed (and, in my experience, truly do)...

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
We’ll just file this as Exhibit A of Senate Democrats talking out both sides of their mouths. During the Sanderthon the past few days, it was notable (to me, at least), that Sen. Mary Landrieu got up and spoke with a Populist fire, as if she endorsed everything Bernie Sanders had to say. Here is a news report from the Times-Picayune on her stance that she is featuring on her Senate website: Under attack for her opposition to the Obama-GOP tax Compromise, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., defend...

Poll Watch: Washington Post/ABC News Survey on Negotiated Tax Deal
Washington Post/ABC News Survey on Negotiated Tax Deal For each item I name, please tell me if it’s something you support strongly, support somewhat, oppose somewhat or oppose strongly. Extending the Bush-era Tax Cuts for all Taxpayers, including wealthy people as well as the Middle Class Strongly support 30% Somewhat support 24% Somewhat oppose 16% Strongly oppose 27% Funding an additional 13 months of Unemployment Benefits for people who are out of work Strongly support 49% Some...

Tax cuts will pass despite Democratic uprising, Obama advisor says
WASHINGTON — A top advisor to President Obama said Sunday a $858-billion package of Tax Cuts and jobless benefits will pass Congress without major changes, despite a revolt by some House Democrats. Senior advisor David Axelrod, appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," said the administration would prevail on the deal struck with GOP lawmakers "because at the end of the day, no one wants to see taxes go up on 150 million Americans on Jan. 1." A showdown in the lame-duck Congress is coming ...

Obama-GOP tax bill clears Senate hurdle with ease
WASHINGTON – Far-reaching Legislation to avert a Jan. 1 income-tax increase for millions won overwhelming support in a Senate test vote on Monday, propelled by an uneasy and unusual alliance between the White House and lawmakers in both parties. Eager to trumpet the 83-15 vote, President Barack Obama said even before it was announced it proved "that both parties can in fact work together to grow our economy and look out for the American People." Senate passage of the bill is expected as ...

House Dems try to pull back estate tax compromise
House Democratic efforts to change the tax deal struck by President Obama and congressional Republicans are focusing on an amendment to the Estate Tax provision, according to senior party sources familiar with a Monday leadership meeting. But it's not clear that the proposed amendment, which the House passed as a stand-alone bill a year ago, would attract the support needed for Adoption. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset POLITICO 44 Utah Rep. Jim Matheson, a leader among moderate Blue Do...

Responding to conservative critics of the tax deal
Like most negotiated legislative compromises, the tax deal has its critics at both ends of the spectrum.  I support the deal and will take one more chance to respond to conservative criticism before this afternoon’s Cloture vote. Obama’s adding all these pork projects, more Ethanol subsidies.  That’s not what the election’s about.  They could go a long way helping themselves making it clear they’re not going to buy a two year deal, with a certain tax ...

Larry Summers: Tax cut plan will add consumer purchasing
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser says targeted Tax Cuts, more exports and greater spending will help reverse a lack of consumer demand that threatens to constrain The Economy "now and for the next several years." Lawrence Summers, in his swan song Speech as head of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, said the tax cut plan negotiated with the president and Senate Republicans "averts what could have been a serious collapse in purchasing ...