there s another proposal for a week. the president, of course, would like i think everybody would like if they could work it out to get the entire six months. what that tells you is they don t have a deal. they have a number of ideas, but you have a bunch of politicians all with different political interests saying try this, try this, try this. where are we? they don t have i deal, but sources in both parties do say that they are getting closer, but the fact of the matter is time is running out. there have been different kinds of short-term stop gap measures that have been drafd and they have senate democratic leaders had them at the ready to try to put forward, and they say that they re just not sure what they re going to do because it depends on what happens over the next few hours. we ve seen actually seen with our own two eyes the going back and forth between the leadership in senate democratic leader harry reid s office and the house speaker s office. the talks do continue.
extension, which would be buy congress a bit more time with more cuts and funding the department of defense for the rest of the year which is something that secretary gates has urged members to do. so it s another option on the table. at the white house today, that meeting will be pivotal because all sides have been blaming each other. house republicans have said the senate has failed to act, failed to pass any kind of a short-term budget other than these stop gap measures. and that the house has done its job over and over. but the numbers have appeared to change. we ve been hearing how there has been real disagreement over how to get there. things like the policy aspects of it. attached to riders and so forth. those things that would strip away money for planned parenthood as an example. the intensity has ramped up and republicans are saying they are now taking the appropriate steps to prepare for a government shutdown and they follow that up by saying, if it happens, it s the senate
controlled, right? house speaker under intense pressure from the conservative republican fresh men, many of them tea partiers who are elected to slash the budget. tea party activists want boehner to man up. i say to the republican leadership take off your lace panties, stop being noodle back s, take a strong, bold, unwavers stand for and with the american people. never mind that reported deficit. they want $100 billion in cuts to things like quote obama care, planned parenthood and npr. what s lost in all of this is reality. after passing six stop gap measures to keep the government going, lawmakers are arguing over a budget that started last year. now, senate republicans have a kind of new idea to force compromise. they want to add an amendment to