Tax deal makes everyone unhappy — except most Americans
Editor’s note: Ed Rollins, a senior political contributor for CNN, is senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University. He is a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a global public relations firm. He was White House political director for President Ronald Reagan and chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
New York (CNN) — Liberals are unhappy and think their leader, President Obama, has surrendered on raising taxes to the rich without a fight.
Conservatives and deficit hawks think the Senate Republican leadership has been snookered by the White House on a new $844 billion stimulus program that will increase the deficit.
Many think it is the first step in the Obama re-election game plan. The public, according to early polls, thinks the plan is good for the economy and, if this is the first exercise in bipartisan governing, the people approve.
CNN
12/15/10
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