Obama: We can't afford to keep every tax break - Jamie Klatell

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/169503-obama-we-cant-afford-tax-breaks-for-millionaires-and-billionaires

Obama has clearly put negotiation on the back burner, preferring to go on the attack for now. It is potent and will almost certainly work to some extent, with the aim being to force Republicans to give way on tax increases. The Republicans do not have much room to move, and Cantor's walkout gave them even less. Boehner needs to find a group of Republicans that are not afraid of a Tea Party challenge that can agree to a tax increase, all while he is publicly stating the opposite. While Boehner does this Obama has decided, as this shows, to give up on helping Boehner and simply attack the GOP position.

Disingenuous? Perhaps. But nothing is less sympathetic than a politician who cries that his opponent is playing politics.