Fiscal Cliff: Democrats and Liberal Press Blame Republicans, Consider Unconstitutional Senate Bill

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The GOP has offered plan after plan, and the White House has rejected all of them.  Obama, and the Senate Democrats, will not accept any economic plan that includes spending cuts, and does not raise taxes for Americans all the way down to those making at least $250,000 per year.  Basically, the democrats are telling the republicans, “Either, you offer a plan that is everything we want, and nothing you want, or we go over the fiscal cliff.”  Then, on queue, the liberal media is blaming the republicans, claiming it is the GOP that is blocking a fiscal cliff deal.

President Barack Obama is playing the voters like a fiddle, nailing down the “blame republicans” strategy by claiming to cut short his vacation so that he can try to convince the congressional republicans to stop standing in the way of a resolution in the U.S. Congress – and of course they are saying the GOP is doing it only to protect their rich friends from being taxed.

Essentially, Obama and the democrats are saying, “Soak the rich and let us keep spending a lot of taxpayer money, and be to blame.  Or refuse to soak the rich and refuse to let us keep spending a lot of taxpayer money, which will result in the expiration of the Bush tax rates, then the taxes go up on everyone, the military gets slashed, and you still get blamed. Take a pick, republicans.”

By the way, if the GOP thinks there is any way out of getting blamed, remember that the media and the education system are completely ruled by the liberal left, so not only will the voters think it was the GOP’s fault, but so will history.