After all this mess is over, do we really want to compromise john boehner as leader of the house . I dont know. Yes. Maybe. Senator graham raises a fair point. Where is the raucous house caucus in the deal making . Most data points to disarray. After reviewing his options over chinese takeouts and cigarettes, how angry the stock markets get on voting on a bill in the lower chamber. Speaking of which Global Financial leaders warned this weekend of massive disruption the world over should america fail. Somewhere between gaenghas khan. We will see what it takes to leave reality and step into today. Senator fellows from Brookings Institute ed. And birthday boy robert costa. Former Clinton White house secretary and managing director of the Global Park Group deedee myers, who is also the author of why women should rule the world a book everyone should own. Former white house secretary the inimitable robert gibbs. Breaking news. The president and Vice President are headed to the hill. The rep
If you seek out liberal obama supporters and ask their views, theyre going to tell you theyre liberal obama supporters. That does not reflect where the kun industry. I award the firstever karl rove award. To Raphael Edward cruz of texas. It singles out those who win face with bad political facts or the loss of political innocence simply deny the facts as presented. Rove did it to his own election Analysis Team at fox. Cruz is now doing it to the wall street journal and nbc. Its called blaming the messenger. Meanwhile, back in the real world, the president must decide how to deal with the changing republican positions. If they offer a clean six week debt extension bill but refuse to reopen the government, does he sign it . If they do both, does he sign it . Even though it brings the ransom problem back before thanksgiving. And what if the House Republicans decide to extend the debt limit, reopen the government, but add a Provision Requiring some debt reduction. Or limiting the Affordabl
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
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Were going to continue to work with our members on both sides of the aisle to try to make sure theres no issue of default and get our government reopened. His deputy eric cantor stressed the importance of fairness in any deal. We also, though, as the House Republican conference think is very, very important for us to stress in whatever proposal we move forward will reflect our position on fairness. To the House Republicans fairness looks Something Like this. Their bill will reportedly include twoyear delay of medical device tax and prohibit members of congress and members of the president s cabinet from receiving subsidies for the Nations Health care law. It will eliminate Health Insurance protections for labor unions which are outlined in the senate bill. And it would prevent the treasury from using extraordinary measures to extend the debt limit. You know, just in case we get into this mess again. The House Republican meeting reportedly began with all members joining together to sing