Join 100,000 others in telling President Obama — stop caving. Start fighting the Republicans. |
Since Thursday, over 100,000 people joined our campaign telling President Obama to “fight, don’t cave” on tax cuts. The Washington Post, MSNBC, and others have covered our petition’s progress.
But the Washington Post also reports that while the President was out of the country, his advisers did some “soul searching” and came up with this brilliant conclusion: Obama “must forge partnerships with Republicans on key issues.”
ARE YOU KIDDING??? Proposing compromise with the current Republicans is like getting punched in the face repeatedly and then proposing that “both sides” stop punching each other in the face.
Then, share this email to others.
Let’s be clear: Republican leaders have zero interest in compromise. None. Zilch. Nada.
“Bipartisanship” to them means Democrats vote for Republican ideas. Obama and his advisers need to understand that.
Even when the overwhelming majority of Americans supported the public option, not a single Republican leader said they’d consider voting for it. Instead, they called Obama a “socialist” for supporting the will of the people — and Obama never fought back or rallied their constituents against them.
The American people don’t want Obama to “compromise” just for the sake of compromising. And they certainly don’t support cutting Social Security to pay for tax cuts for millionaires.
When Obama is right and Republicans are wrong, Americans want their President to fight and win.
The AFL-CIO and Democracy for America have joined us in calling for one vote on tax cuts — for the middle class, not the rich — and DARING Republicans to vote no.
Working together, we’ll push Democratic leaders until they finally fight for “change we can believe in.”
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
— Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Forrest Brown, Michael Snook, and the PCCC team
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