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Are you joking using this as an example? You actually wanted Boner (Is that better?) to extend the FICA/SS tax cut or make it forever?

So why did the Reps agree to it in the first place?

You are positing a false choice. There is no way that any tax cut can be made "forever," including the Bush tax cuts, which are now the Obama tax cuts. Supposedly, the rationale of implementing and extending both the Bush tax cuts and the payroll tax holiday was to not increase taxes during a period of economic weakness.

So do you favor extending the payroll tax holiday for another year or ending it?

Dec 2010/Feb 2011 House Rs were forced to extend it an additional year by O demanding they do it on TV, now you argue now NOT doing the same was a Bohner cave?

Most Reps were on-board with the payroll tax holiday, which was just another stimulus using SS as a vehicle. It costs over $130 billion a year. I was against it then and against it now. And yes, Boehner caved on both SS and extending unemployment benefits. The FC deal also extended unemployment benefits again.

On Friday, Gallup released a poll gauging Americans' views of the Senate deal passed last week to avert the "fiscal cliff." Overall, Americans are mixed on the deal, with 45% disapproving and 43% approving. Among Republican voters, though, the verdict is overwhelmingly negative. 65% of Republican voters disapprove of the plan, against just 27% who support it. It's the opening salvo in the 2014 primaries.

The GOP would be well advised not to kick its base in the teeth and help the Dems pass their bills in House, which is on paper controlled by the Reps. It will be a disaster for the Reps in 2014.

RE :”Most Reps were on-board with the payroll tax holiday, which was just another stimulus using SS as a vehicle. It costs over $130 billion a year. I was against it then and against it now. And yes, Boehner caved on both SS and extending unemployment benefits. The FC deal also extended unemployment benefits again”

Dec 2011 House Rs tried to hold out and not pass it, Reid sent the Senate Home and O got on TV accusing Rs of being for increasing middle class taxes (sound familiar.)

First House Rs (the ones that opposed plan B) claimed they would stay for Christmas till the Senate came back and agreed to some budget cuts to 'pay for it' (ironic since Rush says that talk is Marxist) then they realized it was hopeless.
Republicans gave in for the same reason they always give in, public opinion was against them.
In this case O didnt demand it anymore so it just went away by itself.

You shouldn't be using stuff Bohner did that you support like not extending this tax ‘holiday’ against him.
If you want this to go up dont list it in you grievances when Bohner wins one for you/.