This deal is a joke and the acting is just acting at its best. Doesn’t matter if Obama made the deal. The Senate didn’t agree. Obama knows this and knows he can appear to be the one offering a deal (the senate dems modify in their favor) and when Repubs reject the changes, can blame them and the MSM will just repeat that mantra.
He knows it’ll never pass. MSM will still spin it as he was the compromiser and the Repubs said no.
This is just a huge distraction. obama come out and made the announcement that he made a deal with the repubs, but pelosi and reid are still in power until after the tax rates are due to increase. Given the current dims are hell bent on destroying our country, they will not ammend the law to extend the current tax rates. This keeps the media busy while the FTC takes over the communications industry.
If the deal doesn’t pass, the media will spin it as the GOP caused the tax rates to go up on the middle class since they preferred protecting the “rich” rather than compromise. The GOP’s failure to copromise also takes away the payroll tax cut, estate agreement, UI extension, etc, as will be spun by the media.
The GOP thinks they outsmarted Obama, but the Dems have outsmarted the GOP again. They get a big tax increase and the GOP will get the blame for tax increases and no UI extensio.