A Times article about the Club for Growth, a group of economic conservatives, includes a description of a Republican Congressman who is being challenged by the Club in part for, as the Times describes it, " going along with the bipartisan agreement in 2011 to raise the federal debt ceiling and voting with Speaker John A. Boehner to ratify the deal at the beginning of this year to raise taxes on the wealthy but avert tax increases for the middle class."
That deal, of course, did not "avert tax increases for the middle class." Rather, by allowing the payroll tax cut to expire, it included a tax increase for the middle class.