Congressman from New York says President has shown "remarkable compromise"...

[Johonny]

7. If that was the biggest compromise I wouldn't care

If Republicans want to take in slightly less revenue from the upper middle class and pay the debt, they pretend to worry about, at a slower rate then meh. There wasn't a hard fast unmovable reason for the 250,000$ it was the one number I think you could compromise on. It's the social security and medicare that appear to be thrown in that is deal breaker. Pushing the line in the sand a little higher IMO doesn't make very much difference (I think the number was 200 billion in 10 years) and more to the point illustrates that Republicans don't really care about the debt and even if they do are not capable of rationally dealing with it which gives Dems election material for 2014. Touching social security and medicare is going to be hard to rationalize with the democratic base and in no way helps on any level. Although it would be nice if DCCC chair spun it in the most obvious way "Well we are trying to pay down the debt created by reckless tax give aways to the rich, but Republicans keep telling us they want to keep adding debt at a slight higher rate than us. Go figure, and they claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility." Democrats always seem terrible at messaging. The Republican plan is worse at doing the stated goal that the Republicans are pretending to do, I don't see why that message is so hard for Democrats to latch on to and repeat over and over... I mean the polls show the public doesn't need a lot of convincing on this.