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Obama tells lawmakers not passing tax deal could end presidency, Dem says

By Jordan Fabian - 12/15/10 05:33 PM ET

In urging lawmakers to vote for his tax deal, President Obama is using one of his go-to lines from the healthcare debate, according to a Democratic lawmaker. 

  

Obama is telling members of Congress that failure to pass the tax-cut legislation could result in the end of his presidency, Rep. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) said. 

  

"The White House is putting on tremendous pressure, making phone calls, the president is making phone calls saying this is the end of his presidency if he doesn't get this bad deal," he told CNN's Eliot Spitzer. 

But the White House shot back late on Wednesday.

  

"The president hasn’t said anything remotely like that and has never spoken with Mr. DeFazio about the issue," said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor.

  

Obama's push shows that the president is going to the mat in order to push through Congress the compromise brokered with Republicans. 

 During the end of the healthcare debate, Obama reportedly told Democrats upset that the bill did not contain a public healthcare option that not passing it could put his presidency on the line and stall the liberal agenda for decades. 

  

The White House has been aggressively selling the deal, which includes a two-year extension of all the expiring Bush tax cuts in exchange for a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits, to skeptical lawmakers and the public.

  

The Senate passed the $853 billion legislation by an overwhelming 81-19 margin, sending it to the House. 

  

Though House liberals and some conservatives have voiced opposition to the deal, some opponents have conceded that the likelihood of the deal failing at this juncture is very low. 

  

Still, DeFazio has not been sold. 

  

"I don't feel that way — I think this is potentially the end of his possibility of being reelected if he gets this deal," he said. 

  

Updated 7:11 p.m. and 7:52 p.m. Sam Youngman contributed to this story.

COMMENT:

Since Liberals and Socialists cannot manage history, content, Oath of Office to support of The Constitution United States or the Declaration of Independence for each Individual - regardless of the amount number, position in a Party, or social group of the individual's name; 'We the People' can Understand the Liberal Socialist concern :-( .

 

Liberal Socialist's you get to be involved in a choice:
"The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one; and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.  A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of thee truth of this position." (George Washington's Farewell Address)

 

Versus

 

"There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; because the true idea of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men." That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or, in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics." (John Adams, "Thoughts on Government", 1776)

 

11/02/2010, "We the People"  overwhelmingly voted to continue the "best contrived to secure an Impartial and Exact Execution of the Law.." - One of the most important differences between "We the People's"  Declaration and Constitution Before membership in Any Political Party!  Simply because...without Both of Our Nation's Founding Documents...; the chaos and damage that is resulting  from Liberal-Socialism, since 01/20/2006; is readily experienced and observable to each individual whether elected, non-office holder naturalized, natural; and regardless of position in America's melting pot of persons, inventions, enterprise.