Obama is not ready to accept any offer,if no agreement is made he knows he can get more money by taxing the middle class.
Obama needs to change his mane to Clifford.
This is not about the economy or any "fiscal cliff". This is all about the dems taking back the House in 2014 and giving obama an un-restricted carte blanche in his last two years.
He has already won blame-game. He will rejoice in private and lament in public the hardship that the GOP House will cause by refusing to support his solutions. He will ask the American voter to remove the obstructionist House GOP members and give him a team he can work with. And, the idiot populace will give him what he wants.
Once he has the Senate, the SCOTUS and the House he will drastically and permanently change this country, which has always been his intention. When he is done we will think of his first two years as "the good old days."
That, my FRiend, is the game.