98% of Americans will not see their taxes go up?

[Damocles]

Let's try an experiment. Let's say healthcare reform is enacted with single-payer Medicare for all to being in 2013. Let's say that Obama is defeated in 2012 and Sarah Palin becomes president. Let's say further that Palin fails to convince Congress to pass a law rescinding the healthcare reform bill and single-payer is implemented in 2013.

Is Sarah Palin responsible for single-payer healthcare in the United States?

If she had the capability of stopping it and chose not to, then she would be responsible for it.

Obama is the leader of the party currently in power (and which will remain in power until the sunset of the tax cuts) and has the ability to do as he promised. If he does not, and more specifically if there is no effort in that direction, it will harm him in the next presidential election.

 

[zappasguitar]

But those aren't tax increases! They simply let Bush tax cuts expire.

Since when had the RightWing smear machine ever been concerned with "the truth"?

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Let's try an experiment. Let's say healthcare reform is enacted with single-payer Medicare for all to being in 2013. Let's say that Obama is defeated in 2012 and Sarah Palin becomes president. Let's say further that Palin fails to convince Congress to pass a law rescinding the healthcare reform bill and single-payer is implemented in 2013.

Is Sarah Palin responsible for single-payer healthcare in the United States?

If you are trying to compare the two, your analogy fails completely.

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

That won't wash. They can also run ads showing his promise to only let the ones that effect the top tier to sunset.

yeah, I know... I was being sarcastic.... he is going to have big problems (ie Pappa Bush) if he lets those expire.