premise: If he had said 'you can have them all for two years,' <hypo>,' but what he would have had it when we're going 'hey, we like the sequester,' he could go, 'hey, you like the sequester? If you enforce the sequester, here's what I'm going to take away from your tax cut.' He would have had this leverage against the Republicans on sequester, on debt ceiling on budget, anything he wanted.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "he would have missed the opportunity to go 'nah-nah-nah, I beat you"