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Obama's First Legislative Defeat

Michael Scherer, TIME Magazine, the Swampland blog: "Why Barack Obama Compromised On Tax Cuts -- Long before the midterm ballots had been counted, White House aides had begun to mull the coming agony of divided government. As the Obama team worked out its options, one priority kept coming to the top: However, the next two years shook out, they told themselves, Barack Obama needed to convince the great middle of the American electorate once again that he was fighting for them." The bitter clingers. He's never convinced them of that. "The president presented a series of major concessions to the Republican Party, proposals he had campaigned against and with which he said he still disagreed.

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