President Barack Obama is showing his willingness to compromise on the fiscal cliff by preemptively blaming Republicans’ “conscious choice” to let taxes on the middle class go up. In a Tuesday afternoon tweet — 20 days before the so-called fiscal cliff — President Obama blamed Republicans for something that hasn’t happened yet.
Obama then linked to his campaign website where a letter from Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s former campaign deputy manager, encourages citizens to “pick up the phone” to help the President’s fiscal cliff campaign.
Is the campaign over yet? Well, some Tweeters called him out.
https://twitter.com/RikkiWilliamsXO/status/278546720563007488
https://twitter.com/RikkiWilliamsXO/status/278546854260641792
“@BarackObama: If taxes go up, Rep will have made a choice" You lied about compromise & act like you took a 90% majority. This tweet #joke
— Brett aM (@brettamtpa) December 11, 2012
https://twitter.com/deblessings/status/278576548011982848
https://twitter.com/SamanfaPaige/status/278560561187401729
Republicans didn’t vote for Obamacare… MT @BarackObama: If your taxes go up, Republicans will have made a choice to let that happen
— Greg (@senatorgreg) December 11, 2012
@barackobama proposed #taxincrease not just on "millionaires and billionaires". Will increase some small biz #taxes by avg of $48k per year
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 11, 2012
Thank you, Senator Rubio! Where are the other GOPers calling out the President?
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