Seven days to go before we hit our heads on the debt ceiling. Is there any way out of this mess. There should be a short term deal. Temporary increase in the debt ceiling. Six week clean extension of the debt limit. We cannot waste any mr. Time. There wiz is one hiccup. The government would be shut down. Thats the conversation well have with the president. You need to be able to say what you are asking for. There is no clear indicator. A lot of republicans expressed frustration. Is the government shut down until november 22nd. Dont expect them to go along easily. What is it shut down over . Its spite. Shifting into a shutdown over nothing. Gops favorability rating sunk to an all time low. Not what we asked for. They ought to turn on the lights and pay our bills. Just about pride at this point. You and your pride and your ego. Is there any way out of this mess . No one gets everything they want. Well i got 98 of what i wanted. Im pretty happy. That is a leader with a clear goal. Thats t
Thats the conversation well have with the president. You need to be able to say what you are asking for. There is no clear indicator. A lot of republicans expressed frustration. Is the government shut down until november 22nd. Dont expect them to go along easily. What is it shut down over . Its spite. Shifting into a shutdown over nothing. Gops favorability rating sunk to an all time low. Not what we asked for. They ought to turn on the lights and pay our bills. Just about pride at this point. You and your pride and your ego. Is there any way out of this mess . No one gets everything they want. Well i got 98 of what i wanted. Im pretty happy. That is a leader with a clear goal. Thats the best evidence yet that our congress functions at a kindergarten level. The president s strategy of absolutely refusing to negotiate has worked. Republicans surrendered on the debt ceiling today. Now with the country turned against them, for shutting down the government, all 46 Senate Republicans are he
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
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 Something Like the senate deal, but with simply a provision that would st
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