NOTHING is over your paygrade!!....(IMHO)
If Zero counted his taxes before they hatched then ALL the estimates the CBO gave were wrong by him planning on NEVER renewing the cuts, and then having to back-pedal.
He CAN NOT EVEN sign a Middle Class Tax Cut, and have the numbers he gave CBO stand-up.
Hes already spent the money.
If this is true and the news gets out it could REALLY PO a lot of people who are already mad as hell with him and his economic antics.
I think your interpretation is correct.
Even though Boehner seemed to offer a compromise yesterday, the rhetoric for Gibbsy last night and this morning is to still demonize the minority leader.
I think the White House blinked.