GOP: Obama is overplaying his hand by demanding middle-class tax cuts
"The president's message is that those tax cuts need to get passed immediately—whether or not there are other issues left to resolve. Republicans are responding to that message by holding the tax cuts hostage. They may think that they are flexing their muscles and showing their leverage, but what they are really doing is making sure that if taxes go up at the start of the new year, they are the ones who will get blamed. They'll be the party holding tax cuts for everybody (including the wealthy) hostage—and they'll be doing it to get tax cuts that only go to the wealthy. That would be a political disaster for the GOP. The only question is whether they realize it before or after it happens."
