Morning After PILL: Lipless Mitch calls giving Repubs exactly what they want a "bipartisan plan"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

White House aides said Vice President Joe Biden will ask Democratic lawmakers to swallow their objections to the administration's proposed compromise with the GOP when he attends a closed luncheon with senators at the Capitol. Obama's plan would extend Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including the richest, while also extending unemployment benefits and reducing payroll taxes for a year.

Democratic leaders gave a cool reception to Obama's proposals but did not rule them out. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the compromise plan shows that Democrats want to help low- and middle-income workers while the GOP's chief concern is the wealthiest Americans.

The president had barely stopped speaking Monday before top Republicans applauded his proposals, while most Democrats kept a sullen silence.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., thanked Obama for "working with Republicans on a bipartisan plan to prevent a tax hike on any American and in creating incentives for economic growth."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tax_cuts

[kenny blankenship]

1. That's what "bipartisan" has always meant

Democrats enacting the Republican agenda.

[midnight]

2. True....

[dennis4868]

3. Really?

The repubs wanted unemployment insurance for another 13 months, extending the earned income tax credit to benefit families, college tax credits, and a pay-roll tax cut?

[librechik]

4. They dictate--We surrender. What's not bipartisan about that? n/t

[nykym]

5. Until the democrats learn

how to control the message we will be trapped in an endless loop of capitulation, denial and inaction.
case in point.
"The president had barely stopped speaking Monday before top Republicans applauded his proposals, while most Democrats kept a sullen silence".