Obama, Tax Cuts, And The Bully Bulpit

Chait: "The Republican position on taxes is deeply unpopular and Republicans know it. You can get away with an unpopular position if the issue is technical, or if the opposition lacks a platform to highlight it. But if Obama decides he's going to highlight the Republican position, eventually the pressure will be too great for them to bear. There's no way they're going to spend the next two years opposing a very popular tax cut on the grounds that it doesn't also include a very unpopular tax cut."