Business. Okay. Take a deep breath. Count to ten. Because there may at last be a way out of at least part of the monumental standoff in washington. Right now were just half an hour away from a crucial meeting between House Republican leaders and the president at the white house. And everything could hinge on what happens there. Senate democrats just left the white house after their meeting, and Senate Republicans will head over tomorrow morning. Now over in the house, gop leaders announced this morning that theyll offer a bill authorizing a temporary increase in the debt ceiling if the president will agree to substantive negotiations on other fiscal matters. What we want to do is to offer the president today the ability to move a temporary increase in the debt ceiling in agreement to go to conference on the budget for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way forward to reopen the government. Yep. You heard it right. This quote unquote deal would not even open the governmen
0 former aide to vice president joe biden. we just learned that treasury secretary jack lew will be at the white house meeting. how much confidence can we have that at this point republicans are actually starting to make a little bit of sense? well, confidence is kind of an iffy word right now to talk about ifs and buts. it s really very unpredictable. but it is looking better than it was yesterday at this time. and i think what you re seeing here is the beginning of some cracks in the republican unity. they re looking at dismal poll numbers. they re hearing it from the business community, and they re realizing even the tea party folks are realizing this is not going to be going their way. it s not exactly clear how they fold and how they do it in the most elegant way and the most face-saving way. but certainly the debt limit is the easiest piece of them to give up on. and it sounds like more concessions will follow. so professor dyson, folding elegantly, as david just mentioned,