Bringing this comment out of the shadows:
This is at least his third attempt to raise the current tax rates -- something he could not do with a Democratic Congress, not even in the lame duck session after the shellacking, and which he now insists that a Republican Congress agree to after he couldn't get a Democratic one to do it.
[Likewise:]
He repeatedly insisted on a settlement freeze, even after everyone else realized it was not only a nonstarter but a mistake to have gone down that road in the first place.
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