Analysis: Isolated on tax cut, Republicans blink - AP

House Republicans snatched political defeat from the jaws of victory in a year-end showdown over payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits. This time, they pushed the country to the brink — and wound up blinking. By spurning a deal that Senate Republicans had embraced, for a two-month extension of tax ...

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