Breaking: Tax Deal Stumbles In The House

The tax deal brokered by Obama with the Republicans seems to have stumbled a bit in the House. Democrats were trying to hold a vote on the deal today, but ran into problems and had to pull it from the floor. Nobody is quite sure if this means they don't have the votes to pass it or not.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1210/Liberal_Dems_threaten_tax_bill.html

House Democratic leaders hit a speed bump en route to passing President Barack Obama's tax deal Thursday amid rekindled liberal fury over giving breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

Progressives were miffed that they would be forced to vote for the Senate passed bill - the underlying legislation - if they wanted to vote for the estate tax alteration.

It forced Democrats to pull the rule vote and move to restructure debate.

Though the Democrat leaders are saying they still have the votes, they are notorious for saying that even when they don't. And a lot of Democrats AND Republicans have been announcing they'll vote against the deal, so it's a possibility.

UPDATE:
Jamie Dupree has some comments from various Democrats on this:

"What a screw up" one floor staffer just told me; House Dems "in the process of discussing" said one top Dem.

Some Dems say a confusing rule & parliamentary situation has led to lack of votes for tax deal.

Rep Peter DeFazio (D-OR) on tax deal vote delay: "I was surprised"; lots of grumbling among Dems off House floor.

Rep Alcee Hastings (D-FL) says deal may be in works, but "everything is on shifting sand" right now" on tax deal.

UPDATE:
Here's an explanation for what happened:
http://xr.com/sd8n

Progressive just brought down the rule for the tax cuts bill because they it didn't give them enough of a chance to express their lingering anger at President Obama's deal with Senate Republicans. Democratic leaders had hoped that an amendment built into the rule changing the estate tax provisions would sway enough liberals to vote for the rule and for the bill on final passage. But the leaders were forced to yank the rule off the floor when it became clear it was going to fail. Progressives are demanding a clean vote up or down on the original package -- unamended -- so they can register their opposition.