Matt Lewis, Politics Daily
Regarding President Obama's announcement of a proposed compromise with Republicans on taxes and extending unemployment benefits, it strikes me that there were two things he could have done politically: stand up to Republicans and try to stare them down over the notion of them holding the middle-class tax cuts hostage by wanting to give millionaires a tax break -- while not extending jobless benefits (at Christmas!) -- or claim the whole compromise idea as his own and declare victory.
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