President Obama knows all too well what it’s like to feel the wrath of rankling his base by embracing compromise with Republicans on one of their ideological positions. That’s why he didn’t hesitate when House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) appeared to open the door — just a crack — to the idea of ending payments to oil companies in an interview with ABC News released Monday afternoon.
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