News lede from Politico:
Speaker John Boehner told House Republicans Saturday morning that his
efforts to strike a deal with President Barack Obama are at a standstill. There is no agreement, Boehner said in a room in the Capitol
Saturday, and there are no negotiations between House Republicans and the White
House, since Obama rejected the speaker’s effort to lift the debt ceiling for
six weeks and reopen government while setting up a budget negotiating process. . . . . . .
Editor’s notes: as much as I worry about the conservative
cause as represented or entertained by Speaker Boehner, I must admit that he is not caving in to the
degree many on the Right, have
feared. for the GOP.
Understand that the ball is in the Democrat/Obama side of
the court. The House has passed more than
26 separate bills in the past two weeks, dealing with this crisis. During the same period of time Reid
and the Obama Senate Democrats have passed exactly “zero” bills.
The question remains: who is interested in meeting the other side half way and who is not?
If "they" think they can demand the House to totally
surrender when they refused to do so
during the financial crisis of years gone by,
well, I don’t think reasonable
people believe that is a path to resolving this impasse.
In the latest AP poll, Obama's approval fell to its lowest level of his so-called presidency . . . . . . 37%. If Socialist/Progressives and the media supporting them, think this is not reflective of the larger Progressive base, I think they are nuts. Bush 43's approval numbers were in the range of 32 to 39, at the time of the 2006 midterms, and his party took a beating in that election. The 2014 midterms are just 13 months from now, and Obama is running his worst approval numbers of the past 5 years. Anyone see any similarities between now and 2006?
