Barack Obama actually said...

I have said before that I felt that the middle-class tax cuts were being held hostage to the high-end tax cuts.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America.

I know there are some people in my own party and in the other party who would rather prolong this battle even if we can't reach a compromise...

Will they go along with him in the end? And which will Americans care more about? That he gave up on a campaign pledge to roll back tax cuts...