Right now he's talking about tax rates. He is trying to achieve what he could have achieved (and then some) five short months ago when chose to break his word to his supporters to do otherwise and extend Bush's absolutely unconscionable tax cuts for the rich.
But he has just squandered his last chance to stand up to the Republican bullies. A temporary government shutdown would have been a small price to pay to take the Republicans and their childish arrogance down a notch, but he capitulated instead. He and Democrats in general would have benefited greatly had he stood and fought as Bill Clinton did in 1995, but instead he folded and gave the Republicans what they wanted, even MORE THAN they asked for when negotiations commenced. I wish I could claim credit for this joke but it comes from the political cartoonist Stu Carlson: What's the difference between a lawn chair and Barack Obama? Obama folds faster.
More about the speech.
Obama will never change. He is more concerned about "making nice" with people who will not compromise even if it means throwing the Great Society and the New Deal under the bus.
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