While you can say that reaction from the right on Obama's "deal" is mixed, there are some interesting pro-"deal" murmurings here and there as well.
Some Republicans are emailing their constituents and bragging about how tough it was to get Obama to see it their way, but they've won him over and can you send me a contribution for all the good work I'm doing?
Conservative pundit David Freddoso wrote an op-ed for the Washington Examiner where he explained how Obama is doing Boehner a big favor:
Besides, put yourself in presumptive Speaker John Boehner's, R-Ohio, shoes.
First of all, he's going to have a bunch of teabaggers coming in and wanting to change the world to their liking on the first day in session. But additionally;
...Do you really want your first vote on the House floor to be an extension of unemployment benefits? President Obama has just relieved Boehner of that headache.
Get that? Obama is relieving Boehner of the headache of having to deal with unemployment benefits!
He goes on to lament the resurrection of the inheritance tax, and claims that it has no redeeming qualities and the only thing that it has really done was to accelerate media consolidation. Really? I thought that would be a good thing in right winger eyes.
He goes on to say that it's not so bad because the "deal" will be a lower rate than previously, have a higher exemption, and best of all, it has to be dealt with again in two years when it can be abolished permanently.
He admits that isn't ideal for righties, but then offers these pluses:
First, the top marginal income tax rates -- the ones that matter most for job creators -- are being kept where they are.
Second, they have to be dealt with again in two years, which means they will be an issue in the 2012 presidential race.
Third, you prevent the top marginal rate from being decoupled from everyone else's tax rates, which could have created a situation in which the supply-side tax policy has narrower support.
And his fourth bullet point is the pleasure of seeing us, the left, having a civil war over "the deal".
Well, other than that fourth point, I think I agree with this guy. This "deal" is just swell for Republicans, and especially for "hell no" Boehner.