E-MAIL THIS LINK
To: 

Dems Worried About Raising Taxes Too Much
While Republican tensions over tackling the national debt have been on public display for days, Democrats have also been squabbling with one another, though largely out of view.
It's good to have the media on your side.
At issue for Democrats is whether the party risks going overboard in its embrace of tax increases — a perilous proposition for lawmakers from political battlegrounds.

Several centrist Democrats have been voicing concern in private sessions that Conrad’s draft may be shifting too far to the left in order to placate liberals on the committee and in the media whose votes are needed to move the legislation, according to aides.

Republicans have been rallying around a House spending plan authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), even as they’ve been sending mixed signals in recent days over a key provision calling for a deep overhaul of Medicare. The Democratic-run Senate, meantime, has been incapable unable — or unwilling — to lay out its alternative agenda.

The New and Improved Harry Reid, meantime, has told his caucus to move cautiously before embracing any budget plan. “I told my members just — let’s not be signing onto all this stuff until we really know where we’re headed.”
Learned your lesson with sign-it-first-then-read-it Obamacare, right, Harry?

Posted by: Bobby 2011-05-14
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=322572