How many Senate (D)s support Obama's fiscal cliff proposal?

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How many voted for his last budget?

It is not exactly a profile in courage. The Hill reports, “Senate Democratic centrists, whom Grover Norquist describes as the ‘hostages’ in the tax debate, are lying low and keeping quiet about competing proposals from President Obama and House GOP leaders. These centrists have declined to endorse Obama’s opening offer to raise taxes by $1.6 trillion, twice the size of the tax increase most of them voted for in July.” (They did vote against the president’s very similar budget plan — unanimously.)

That is exactly how many of them support him right now.

Don Stewart, communications director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), emphasizes that the president, in all likelihood, lacks the support among Democrats to pass his wish-list. He tells me, “To date, not a single Senate Democrat has come forward to endorse the President’s job-killing tax hike and bizarre request for a permanent authority to raise the debt ceiling whenever he wants for as much as he wants.”



If the president is feeling invincible, Senate Democrats should be feeling vulnerable. Republicans have yet to really turn up the heat, either forcing votes among the nervous Dems or running ads in their home states. (However, American Crossroads is out with a national ad buy, criticizing the president’s approach as unbalanced.)

Senate Democrats try to hide

 

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The "fiscal cliff" is a foregone conclusion and the "offers" are nothing but policy statements. Right now everyone is looking for a safe spot to stand during the fallout no matter the party, Obama has no reelection to sweat over so he is gladly taking all the heat for the democrats but unfortunately all the republican leaders in this are probably already thinking about what they are going to do later as this is probably their last term in office