[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

It is less accurate to say “Boehner’s tax plan failed,” than to say, “the DemocRats rejected their own tax plan in order to escalate their political war on the GOP and their economic war on the middle class.”

[yoe]

It is less accurate to say “Boehner’s tax plan failed,”....

Could it possibly be that a promise NOT to raise taxes period is being honored here?