Boehner: "Get your ass in line" and obey me, pass my bill
me: I want another wife
wife: oh no you don't!
me: okay, another girlfriend?
wife: no way!
me: why won't you compromise!?!?!?
Sometimes compromise is bad. This is a good example. Those that refuse to raise taxes need to stick to their guns. Raising taxes will not raise revenue. Raising taxes will put bigger nurabers in the playbook, so the moneyspenders will have more future-money to play with, and play with it they will... and we'll be right back here again, only with a bigger, scarier monster.