President Obama is the only one to grab the moral high ground on this issue.

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1. The democrats who want to kill the deal can't claim it because they are willing to let the tax cuts expire even for those of us n the lowest end of the economic spectrum because they have suddenly become overwhelmed by deficit spending. Did they oppose deficit spending in the first stimulus? They should have debated this much earlier when there was time. Time has run out.

2. The GOP can't claim it because they know that the wealthiest don't need a tax cut but they are just bound and determined to clog up the works to get a tax break for their buddies.

3. The President can claim the high ground because in the end, he (a)kept his promise not to raise taxes on those making less than $250K; (b) decided that helping those of us struggling the most was more important than sticking it to the GOP and the rich, and (c) took over and pushed the deal through because the clock had run out since the democrats could have taken this up earlier in the year (which is what he wanted to do) but didn't because they thought it would sink their chances to win reelection (didn't work out too well for us).