At Bipartisan Budget Meeting, Familiar Hurdles but a New Attitude

At Bipartisan Budget Meeting, Familiar Hurdles but a New Attitude-NYTimes.com: President Obama and Congressional leaders on Friday reopened budget negotiations that ended badly in 2011 with surprising bipartisan bonhomie, and even some initial agreements toward a year-end deal. Yet a familiar hurdle remains before any handshakes: resolving the parties’ dispute over whether to extend the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthy.