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John Boehner, the House minority leader, mixed his message on the tax battle on purpose this weekend. I, for one, think it was a pretty clever move.

Bob Schieffer, the CBS “Face the Nation” host, tried to nail Boehner down on how he would vote if extending only a portion of the Bush tax cuts were his only option. Schieffer (and the Obama White House) all thought that Boehner would say he would vote no, giving Democrats an easy way to attack him and congressional Republicans over the next two months.

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