Obama ready to sell us down the river?

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17. Maybe he was then, but it doesn't look like he is now

Re-election has emboldened him, and he is in a very different place than he was last July, when he faced the prospect of an already weak economy sliding back on his watch a year before the election. He had a gun to his head then that he doesn't have now. All indications so far are that he intends to stand his ground. Inevitably, he will have to compromise at some point, but it looks like he has learned his lesson about starting out from a compromise position.