Liberals revolt on tax cut talks: ‘It’s a tangled web of disaster’

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Daily Caller:

Washington was home to an odd double-tiered reality Thursday, where the House passed a tax cut bill designed to please their base but widely referred to as “symbolic” because it cannot pass the Senate, the Senate scheduled a vote Saturday on the same, and left-wing groups nonetheless viciously decried their party for surrendering to political certainties.

“It’s a tangled web of disaster,” said one organized labor official of the situation.

Liberal groups and activists – many of them among the “professional left,” thus dubbed by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs – were left howling with rage after a late-day statement from Gibbs. They saw in Gibbs’ words capitulation to Republican demands that President Obama extend the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels, instead of letting taxes go up for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families bringing in more than $250,000 a year.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and White House Budget Director Jack Lew are in ongoing negotiations with a bipartisan group of four lawmakers.