Mr. Silver's plan has support from civic groups as a palatable compromise, but not from Mr. Cherkasky.
On Saturday, Democrats appeared to have conceded the point in exchange for big automatic defense cuts, which they said would give Republicans a powerful incentive to work with Democrats toward a more palatable compromise.
His more politically palatable compromise plan seeks to find common ground for the tax treatment of multinationals, making it harder for corporations to build complex structures and transactions between member states that artificially depress tax liabilities.
Some educators maintain that repackaging a semester's worth of curriculum into more palatable chunks compromises learning, that an eight-week course is too fast and too intense.
Another well-connected reform activist told the Huffington Post that the White House has discussed the trigger as a palatable political compromise in the past.
It would be dishonest, and foolish, to suggest that hammering out a compromise palatable to all sides is going to be easy.
At 46, he is poised to become one of Europe's youngest prime ministers, but he is less a new-guard politician than a compromise candidate palatable to his own imploding center-left party and to the center right — a young facade on a political edifice in the throes of collapse.
During the 2011 debate over the debt limit, Congress and the White House agreed on the cuts, known as sequestration, expecting to compromise over more palatable spending plans by Friday.
The rescue programme is due to expire at the end of this month but Varoufakis has been locked in talks with fellow eurozone finance ministers this week to try to achieve a compromise that is politically palatable for both sides.
With President Bush dead set on building a national missile defense, American and Chinese military experts have begun exploring ways to make such a shield more palatable to China and say a compromise, though extremely difficult, might be possible.
On Wednesday morning, liberal strategist Mike Lux, who advised the Obama administration during the transition, wrote that White House officials were pushing the "trigger" compromise as a politically palatable way of avoiding "a floor fight in the Senate".
