Crossing Our Fingers for Middle Class Fairness

HOW THE DEMOCRATS SHELLACKED THEMSELVES
By Joan Walsh

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/11/07/2010_elections

EXCERPT: It had to happen this way. In the wake of a self-described electoral "shellacking," President Obama's first crucial test will be deciding whether he'll hold his ground on extending the Bush tax cuts only for the working and middle class, or whether he'll cave to Republican demands that they go to the wealthiest Americans, too. On Fox News Sunday, Eric Cantor said there's no room for compromise; the GOP opposes "decoupling" breaks for the rich from breaks for the rest of us.