Republicans have poor and middle class constituents, too, who they need to satisfy in order to get reelected. Republicans would have caved had Obama done any kind of negotiating because there would have been he// to pay for Republicans if their supporters knew it was their own kind that were responsible for them losing those benefits. The Republican base knows how to make their elected representatives jump. Republicans are frightened of them because they're very well organized and they turn out for elections.
This was an absolutely wretched deal, but standard for Obama. He's got a long record of negotiating lousy deals on ordinary citizens' behalf. If Obama was in private practice & 'Lawyer Obama' had negotiated a deal like this for a client, he'd be sued, successfully, for malpractice.
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