Obama defends tax cut deal, compares Republicans to ‘hostage takers’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: "President Obama held a quickly arranged press conference at the White House to defend his tax cut deal but spent most of his time attacking Republicans for being unwilling to compromise and seeking to persuade the press that he is not a pushover.
The president, in one of the most feisty and defensive public appearances of his presidency, spent as much if not more time talking about his willingness to confront an intransigent Republican opposition in the future as he did explaining and selling the tax cut plan he announced Monday evening.
Obama was equally frustrated with his own liberal base, which has clamored for him to fight Republicans rather than negotiate or compromise. But, casting himself numerous times as the protector of the American people, Obama said he had no choice.
“It’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed,” Obama said. “In this case, the hostage was the American people, and I was not willing to see them get harmed.”"
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