Anybody could look at the economic policies over President Obama's term and easily declare them as Republican ones. The Obama administration has pretty much kept all of Bush's economic policies in place until now.
Granted, Democrats were successful in stopping many of the domestic spending cuts Republicans were looking for, but everything else seemed the same until today. Today, the White House declared that they would not under any circumstance extend tax cuts for the wealthy and that they would try to make new cuts for the middle and lower class.
President Obama has tried too long to compromise with Republicans when they have done ridiculous things such as holding the debt ceiling hostage and refusing to pass the payroll tax cuts that they had previously wanted. Democrats are tired of looking for compromise and being treated like dirt for it so they are finally saying no more.
If America wants to get the economy going again we have to allow President Obama to fix the broken system that Bush left us with. If Republicans really care about the deficit they would have ended tax cuts for the wealthy which make up the biggest individual part of the deficit.
Republicans claim to be fiscally conservative and yet they refuse to allow the rich to pay their share. They refused to pass the Buffet Rule that would have made top earners pay at least 30% (what many middle class workers are paying now).
It's time for America to wake up; the Republican party is not the party they used to be. They are an extreme party filled with policy makers who want to benefit their rich donors instead of protecting the average Americans.
President Obama has finally realized this and has finally refused to play games with them on the Bush tax cuts. We can only hope he continues to do this on other policy issues.
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