Obama Pressuring DEM Congress to Say Rich Tax Cuts Popular

The Huffington Post reports the White House is now pressuring Congressional Democrats to go out and say tax cuts for the rich are popular.

That an administration would promote polling data backing its policy preferences is normally not an astounding revelation. But the private push of the Gallup study struck the Senate aide as depressing if not counter-productive. Even as the president was insisting that he thought an extension of rates for the wealthy is poor economics -- "I'm as opposed to the high-end tax cuts today as I've been for years," Obama said on Tuesday -- his aides were privately embracing the idea that extending the Bush tax cuts across the board was politically prudent.

"We are making the argument for (Republicans)," said the Senate aide, who sent over the email on condition that it could not be reprinted. "The White House now wants us to defend extending the Bush tax cuts."

I have yet to read articles on Obama pressuring Democrats on financial reform, repealing DADT or the DREAM Act. Obama lobbied Senate Democrats to not support a bill allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. The deal resulted in costing the taxpayers $76 billion in savings. This president backs policies that continue to hurt the American people.