Extend the tax cuts the hell with the unemployment. Let him veto it if he chooses. It’d be his call.
What makes you think the tax cuts would ever get to him to veto? The Senate has to approve them first. And that's what this deal is about, to get Senate approval.
We don't own the Congress just yet. And, after January, we'll own but half of it.
The Republicans are not in a position to dictate anything to anybody just yet...