How does Obama define compromise?

Giving in.  Now, he's in favor of the chained CPI re Social Security; he was previously against it.  Two months ago he said that aid for states to make free prekindergarten education available nationwide was a priority; that was yesterday, today he has to compromise.  He's also cutting $400 billion from health programs.  Of course, he says this will only happen if taxes increase.  Here's what Jackie Calmes says about this latest attempt at compromising with absolutists:

Neither the president nor senior aides privately hold much hope that Republican leaders — Mr. Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader — will compromise. So Mr. Obama’s strategy of reaching out to other Senate Republicans reflects a calculation that enough of them might cut a budget deal with the Democratic Senate majority. If that happens, the reasoning goes, a Senate-passed compromise would put pressure on the House to go along.  

This is all to reduce our debt, despite the fact that most economists say debt reduction should be more gradual as we still have an unemployment problem, a major one. 

This guy has zero guts and almost as much principle.