Rep. Keith Ellison, Op-Ed: Last
week, Speaker Boehner described the Senate deal for extending
middle-class tax cuts and unemployment benefits as acceptable. This past
Saturday, eighty-nine senators—including the vast majority of
Republican Senators—voted for the bipartisan compromise to extend
unemployment benefits and a middle-class payroll tax cut for two months.
No sooner did the Tea Party House Republicans begin to fear that this
good faith compromise just might succeed than they stepped forward and
smashed the deal. Within a few hours, Speaker Boehner went from saying
the Senate compromise was “a good deal” and “a victory” to saying, “It’s
become clear that what the Senate did pass is going to cause job
creators all kinds of problems.”
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