House Speaker John Boehner says President Barack Obama is demanding the GOP surrender the budget and debt limit fight unconditionally, but Republicans won’t do it.
The Ohio Republican was responding to Obama’s statement earlier saying he would discuss anything Republicans want, including proposed changes to “Obamacare,” but not under the threat of “economic chaos.” He urged Boehner to hold a vote immediately to reopen the government and to allow the country to borrow more money. Boehner is insisting instead that the two sides start negotiating now on the terms of any budget or debt agreement, saying attaching other measures is a long-held practice.
They spoke with the government’s partial shutdown in its eighth day. An even bigger financial crisis looms next week when the government reaches its borrowing limit.
(AP)
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This Obama is the biggest liar in the world! I’m really proud of the Republicans for finally not caving in. Obama is saying give in and do what I want, and then we’ll talk. He really must think Boehner is stupid! But HE is the one who is stupid. He has no sense at all. He’s pretty much a disgrace to humanity!
All the better for frum non-essential civil servants. A spirit of patriotic compromising would make it very hard to get to a minyan, especially at this time of year (has anyone noticed that the USA is the only country that is still on daylight savings time in October).
The Republicans got fewer votes than the Democrats in the last election for President, for Senators, and for Representatives. (They only kept the House majority because of creative drawing of district lines.) Yet they have won all the battles on the budget, endangering among other things America’s medical research infrastructure, its ability to respond to disasters, and its ability to protect diplomatic facilities overseas. Now they want to take health insurance away from millions of Americans and cut even more from needed governmental tasks. It is high time the Democrats stopped compromising!