Dems irked by flood of e-mails

By CAROL E. LEE
Politico.com
12/09/10 12:43

Members of Congress don’t really need another reason to be angry at President Obama, but the barrage of e-mails from the White House this week announcing support for the tax cuts deal he cut with Republicans is starting to irk Democrats on the Hill.

“Where the hell was this operation when we were trying to pass health care?” said one senior Democratic leadership aide.

Some Democrats, already seething over their losses in the Nov. 2 election and the tax-cuts compromise, see the tactic as more evidence of a White House that’s only worried about Obama, not the party.

Since Obama announced Monday that he’d reached a deal with Republicans on the Bush tax cuts, the White House press office has sent out a steady stream of e-mails through the press office boasting about the mayors, governors, senators and members of Congress who back the president’s “Middle Class Tax Cut Framework.”

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