Chuck Schumer Is Willing to Give John Boehner a Few Days to Warm Up to Higher Taxes

“You can’t expect the Speaker to turn on a dime in 24 hours and embrace everything, higher taxes, higher taxes on the wealthy, but I think privately that he’s seen the handwriting on the wall and it makes me very hopeful that we can do something big in the next month and a half. It’s a good first step,” he said. [The Hill, Earlier]