Top House Progressive Says Obama Is Violating Campaign Pledge | Talking Points Memo

House Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) has a number of issues with President Obama. But chief among them seems to be that, though they’ve stayed silent on a whole host of health care issues, they’ve thrown their weight behind a controversial tax in the Senate bill–one that Grijalva says violates Obama’s solemn campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class.


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