Why Obama isn't caving

President Barack Obamas stiffening resolve during the fight over the fiscal cliff can be traced directly to the lessons he drew from his hard-won triumph of the 2012 campaign.
He whipped Republicans a second time, parried the best attacks they could muster, and is now demanding that they respect the victory, if not the man who won it. That doesnt mean Obama wont eventually compromise, especially with the specter of a renewed recession lingering just over the horizon, but his body language is a lot more combative than the...