Geithner’s Long Game Set Up Obama Payroll-Tax Triumph: Ron Klain
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Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Progressives have a spring in theirstep this holiday season after the debacle suffered by HouseRepublicans in the debate over the payroll tax.
Many liberals will be surprised to learn that a good dealof the credit belongs to one of their least-favorite members ofthe president’s economic team: Treasury Secretary TimothyGeithner, whose economic and strategic counsel set the trap thatthe House hardliners fell into.