Give it a rest, Nancy.
(The Hill) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Republicans are “out to get the middle class,” as she criticized their proposal for paying for an extension of the payroll-tax cut.
Pelosi used her weekly news conference Thursday to contrast the GOP payroll-tax-cut plan with President Obama’s. The Democratic plan would expand and extend the one-year holiday and pay for it with a tax increase on millionaires. Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced a proposal simply extending the current tax cut and paying for it by freezing federal pay, cutting the federal workforce and trimming certain federal benefits for the wealthy. […]
“I don’t know what the middle class ever did to the Republicans that they’re so out to get them,” the former Speaker added, accusing the Republicans of wanting to pay for a tax cut for the middle class but not for extending tax cuts for the wealthy. “But whether it’s job creation, economic growth, the tax code and the rest — the deck is getting stacked against the middle class.”