LAST EDITED ON 12-20-12 AT 01:40 PM (EST)Let's be fair here: the GOP isn't particularly interested in compromise either. Did you see yesterday's press conference by the Speaker? If not, go ahead and watch it. It'll only take a minute. Or in this case, slightly less. They'll give the President anything he wants as long he promises to suicide at the end. Not being around to see people go back on their word is the most basic requirement for getting it.
But at this point? I don't think either party cares what happens as long as the population blames the other one for it. Two years of guaranteed financial/actual death in exchange for total control of Congress and two more to get everything? We're well past the place where the majority of politicians would sign off on that and use the blood from the fatalities for ink.
Now if America somehow happens to blame both sides...