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How many voted for his last budget?
That is exactly how many of them support him right now.
Senate Democrats try to hide
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 Obamas 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 presidents 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 Presidents 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 presidents approach as unbalanced.)
Senate Democrats try to hide