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Heres how that threat would play out. Taxes will automatically go up on all income earners next week if a deal isnt struck. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will put forth legislation to bring taxes back down for middle incomes. Thatll leave Senate Republicans with a choice: either let it move forward and pass, or go on record filibustering a middle class tax cut as the nation watches. Both bad choices.
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I believe such a proposal could pass both houses with bipartisan majorities, as long as those leaders actually allow it to come to a vote, Obama said at the news conference. If members of the House or the Senate want to vote no, they can.
In other words, Obama isnt hesitating to exercise what Democrats correctly recognized as their upper hand on the issue, not only because they have the ability to block any outcome they dislike but because polls say the public is likely to blame Republicans if the nation plunges over the cliff.
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