debt ceiling before the deadline next week. ran paul met with a president on the senate floor with a group of republicans. do you have a bottom low below which you will not go in accepting something that would end this standoff. i think compromises is in the eyes of the beholder. we offered 13 compromises this week to open the government. the democrats rejected each one of them. to me, there is a big picture problem. we have the debt. we re borrowing more than a million dollars every minute. we do have to address that. i think the one thing i cannot accept and the one thing that i think is really not even a compromise at all is the democrats want to exceed the sequester caps. these things that we but into law and restrain spending already. and it s funny, they re all about obama care being the law of the land. so is the sequester. the xwester is the l er iseques