let's hope he has learned this lesson

Obama On Lessons Learned: I Should Have Started With No Tax Cuts And Let GOP Take Credit For Them
(Think Progress)
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Of course the repugs were never going to be happy with anything that Obama proposed. As others have said, Obama should not have put any tax cuts into the proposal and let the repugs request them. In their crazy, bizarro-land, since they didn't add the cuts, they don't exist! Just because Obama wants to be bi-partisan and has bent over backwards to do so doesn't mean that the repugs will reciprocate. If fact, it is obvious that the more Obama tries, the more obstructionist the repugs become.