Hill Hallways: Senate Democrats Openly Upset with Tax Cut Deal

[ProSense]

Hill Hallways: Senate Democrats Openly Upset with Tax Cut Deal

By: CNN's Dana Bash and Ted Barrett

Washington (CNN) – Senate Democrats are openly expressing their disappointment, and in some cases outrage, with the President Obama's tax cut deal.

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Landrieu also chastised the president for dealing with Republicans without adequately consulting his fellow Democrats, and said she's worried this is the way the next two years will be.

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"It almost has a 'let them eat cake' character, that the people who don't need it are going to get tax relief and as a consequence they've thrown in the people who desperately need the unemployment insurance relief," said Lautenberg.

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Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, also on the liberal side of the spectrum, was quite blunt. "What do I think it of? Not much," he said.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, told us the tax cut deal took her by "surprise," especially the estate tax provision.

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Mary Landrieu is upset? Maybe Senate Democrats will oppose the deal?

[Beetwasher]

1. It's Their Own Damn Fault They Were Too Cowardly To Take It Up Before The Election

Now Obama has broken the log jam and the unemployed will get their extension and the middle class can keep their tax cut and get an additional one. That is if Congress can get it's shit together.

[Cant trust em]

2. Mary Landrieu can shut the fuck up. nt

[subterranean]

3. I don't understand the capitulation on the estate tax either.

Was that another one of the GOP's conditions for agreeing to the tax deal, or did the President just throw it in as a freebie?

[JustAnotherGen]

4. I'm only interested

In Seeing Senators up for re-election in 2012 think. Seriously - each and everyone should NOT vote in favor when it comes back to them and they should play the deficit Hawk. Ditto the House (all of them. They might be able to bash an opponent over the head for deliberately increasing our tab with China and Russia in 2012.

[TwilightGardener]

5. I suppose then they should have vigorously supported, and gotten their colleagues

to support, the middle-class-only bill.

[Pisces]

6. This is called political posturing. No one wanted to play chicken with unemployement

benefits during the holidays.

[TwilightGardener]

8. That's all this is. They know Dems are upset, so they're going to

take their pinata swings at the President.

[Clio the Leo]

7. Yeah, I was surprised to see Landrieu's name...

.... I think she just likes to be difficult.

[Rowdyboy]

9. We'll see just who winds up supporting this atrocity if Bernie Sanders filibusters....

God I hope he goes through with his threat.

Smells a lot like posturing to me too.