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Leaders of the Tea Party Patriots group are asking each of their members to call five members of Congress urging them to vote against the proposal.

"The Deal" or 'The Tax Deal' as it is becoming known around the country between President Obama and Congressional Leadership is problematic. This is a deal that needs to be opposed," says the group on its website.

"I am very upset. It is a direct breach of the Republican pledge not to add to the deficit," the Tea Party Patriots' National Coordinator Mark Meckler told CNN.

"You have Republicans coming out of the gate breaching the pledge they made not to add to the deficit," Meckler also said.

Republican leaders countered they are not in charge of the House yet and have vowed there will be more fiscal control once the GOP takes control next month.

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Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, vowed earlier this week to filibuster the tax cut bill to prevent a vote on the Senate floor. He said those who ran from the right in the election said they would not vote for anything that increased the deficit. This does. It raises taxes, it raises the death tax," he told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday.

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Club For Growth, a fiscally conservative group that promotes limited government, declared this week its opposition to the tax cut compromise.

"This is bad policy, bad politics, and a bad deal for the American people," Chris Chocola, president of the group, told CNN. "The plan would resurrect the Death Tax, grow government, blow a hole in the deficit with unpaid-for spending, and do so without providing the permanent relief and security our economy needs to finally start hiring and growing again."

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All of the activists are happy there is at least a short-term extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, but they would like to see them be made permanent.

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Tennessee Tea Party activist Mark Skoda called the proposal a practical and pragmatic compromise. While he shared the concern about the growth it will cause in the deficit, he said it was a necessary step.

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Senate Democrats failed Thursday to win a procedural vote to open debate on a bill that would provide medical benefits and compensation for emergency workers who were first on the scene of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The motion for cloture, or to begin debate, needed 60 votes to pass due to a Republican filibuster, but fell short at 57-42 in favor.

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