No matter, Boehner and the boys are getting scared, so now there's talk of a 'Doomsday Plan', in which House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, and would vote 'present', allowing it to pass entirely on Democratic votes (as if that washes Republican hands clean). Now, while the deal doesn't offer the President anything more (i.e., no extension of the debt ceiling, nothing on unemployment, nothing on closing loopholes), the class warfare component of this tax deal is really the main thing Obama was after all along...enough to be willing to go over the cliff if he didn't get them.
