Caving on Taxes?

Ned hears with growing anger and dismay reports that the Obama people are signaling their intention to cave in to the Republican lickspittles and agree to extend the plutocrat tax cuts. If this is true, the last bit of principle will have vanished from this ill-starred administration like so much dust in a Nevada wind storm. What principles have the Obama people stuck to? Where have they drawn any lines in the sand? Where is any sign of bedrock philosophy and integrity to counter the sanctimonious hypocritical cant on the part of the modern Republican Party? What do Democrats stand for? Ned concludes with disgust and sadness they will agree to any indignity to stay in power, like Neville Chamberlain during the 1930s who would do anything Hitler wanted to preserve "peace in our time" but who was played by Hitler for the fool that he was.
Have the Republicans not publicly said they intend to do whatever it takes to destroy his presidency?
In the end of course Chamberlain got war, not peace, and had he had a spine, he could at least have had war on his terms and not on the terms of the Nazis.
There is the lesson for Obama, but it seems he is too spineless and "pragmatic" to take it.
Ned predicts that if Obama does cave on taxes he will face powerful opposition in the 2012 primaries, and Ned intends to support anyone who will display a spine towards the sneering plutocracy and their toady enablers.