Direction to go. Boehner is still held captive. This isnt the first time. We saw this with the fiscal cliff, the farm bill. John boehner does not have the votes. Seam problem here. Why are they doing this . We get closer and closer to the edge. We are about to default. Everybody gets hurt. Time is money. Working on a way forward. There is a battle for the soul of the republican party. Im very disappointed with john boehner. What a speaker has to do is get the job done. John boehner spent the day proving to the crazies in his party that it is impossible for anything that the crazies want to pass the house of representatives. First, boehner and the leadership offered republicans in the house the option of voting on something similar to the Senate Agreement with the difference being some changes to the Affordable Care act. It quickly became clear in their meeting that republicans did not have enough votes to pass that. Then, john boehner, offered republicans the option of maybe voting for
0 agreement would get back on track. number one. number two he emfa sized again, what he has emphasized again, what he has all along. negotiate on budget issues. the republicans have the house budget. we have our democratic bumen ii. what he is not twiwilling to dod the republicans of the faith and credit of the government hostage. to extract the outrageous demands. i think the most important thing coming out of the discussions is we will have established that principle and precedent. now, not that, not that the tea party guys will have learned that lesson. but will have demonstrated in the period of time that the president was absolutely firm and committed to those principles. want to listen to something that nan secy pelosi said aftere meeting at the white house today. listen to this. in the end you are trusting john boehner, will in your mind dupt rig do the right thing and put something clean enough on the floor. i don t know what the se sequencing of it is, yes. congre