promise to harry reid been fulfilled we never would have gotten to this shutdown, which is what we re trying to do right now and what the president is trying to do is find a way for everybody to back down from this treaty that the speaker climbed up on, and get back to a point where we restart the government, take back the debt ceiling, and have the ten-week negotiation which allows us to deal with the long-term stability of this country. you re going to be with the president tomorrow with the republican delegation. clearly the president has made it crystal clear, repeatedly that any amendments to obama care are not on the table. he will not have this held, some metaphorical gun to his head, given that you know this to be, what will be the strategy for the republicans, on this situation that caused so much havoc to the americans? the president wanted the conference to meet with him. we didn t think it would be