How is it a resounding victory for Obama? Obama wanted a one year extension also. The Republicans lost nothing here except they made themselves look bad by not just passing it. They need to learn which battles to fight. A 2 month extenstion with agreement they would work on making it a year in January when they return and they had almost 90% of the Senate passing it....that is not the right battle.
Actually it was a win - or at least a PR win, just a few days ago. We made Hussein agree to the Keystone language and there are no millionaire tax increase offsets. It was obviously the deal Boehner/McConnell had reached with Reid. Getting that Keystone language in was a victory for us and had been clearly portrayed as such in the media. I dunno what happened, but it appears some House Republicans decided to fight a battle they had no chance to win. Now they've caved which was obviously going to happen given the politics of the situation, made themselves look like idiots, and generally appear incompetent.