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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'is the President ready to watch the country go into default rather than negotiate with congress'
this is the question savannah guthrie asks jack lew on the debt ceiling battle.
fuck m$nbc.
fuck meet the press.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Boner saying that the house "WILL NOT pass a clean CR"
spanone
(135,855 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Boehner won't pass a clean CR and says as much.
The President won't sign a CR that isn't clean and says as much.
Perhaps we need to make it clear to Johnny Boehner that at this point he needs to negotiate to even keep the sequester.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)He's bad enough as it is. NBC is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with her. Wasn't Rachel Maddow available??? Or, Lawrence O'Donnell??? Hell, even Al Sharpton would've been infinitely better.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Throwing facts at Rand Paul and he's struggling....having to pause before answering questions, he looks tired and defeated and speaks like he doesn't even believe in what he's saying anymore.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I see too much of her on The Toady Show, and even there she's not all that great. Good to hear that she's going after Randy Paul. Maybe there's hope for her yet.
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Can't stand Gregory and wasn't even going to watch when I saw he was on, but (and I can't believe I'm saying this) was pleasantly surprised.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)No David Gregory, Schmuck Todd, Billo the Clown...
I guess Guthrie is a lawyer, so maybe her lawyerly instincts are kicking in today.
Carolina Lady
(33 posts)she needs to go back to morning tv. She is awful.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)Boehner essentially said the same thing on This Week.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/06/2738351/boehner-well-be-on-the-path-towards-default-if-obamas-doesnt-accept-gop-demands/
spanone
(135,855 posts)these assholes have no intention of negotiating anything.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)However, I suspect the President has some options he will use if we get to D-day without an agreement.
lpbk2713
(42,763 posts)They just want to involve Obama in order to lend themselves credibility.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)to the wire. Because I do think the SC will support the President taking actions to bypass the House to pay the US governments bills.
eShirl
(18,495 posts)spanone
(135,855 posts)rep fudge said the full faith of the government is not negotiable.
this is a right wing trashing of the democrats....now let's trash the fact that there has been too much web traffic on the website for ACA
KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)The purse strings are with Congress. If they don't want to do their own jobs then there's not a whole lot any of us can do except fire the deadbeats.
All the President can do is be a mediator between warring factions in Congress and use what few tools he has if they fail to get the job done. Contrary to the claims he's not a dictator.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)MiniMe
(21,718 posts)They won't give up a thing, that is the problem. Give us what we want, or else.
spanone
(135,855 posts)hostage taking is their tactic.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)Will he be ready the next time where the whim of GOP co. is, say, profitising Social security?
Or the time after that when the whim may be elimination of the minimum wage?
Or the time after that where GOP co. demands _____________? Just pick something on their wish list.
This is not about the ACA. The republican menace will continue to take hostages until they are stopped.
Weather defiance or surrender, it will be painful.
Cha
(297,409 posts)idiot?"