The “answer” to a stalemate where the President is stomping his feet and insisting you do things his way or old people will die is to cede power?
The proposal would transform the political dynamics of the debate, placing the entire burden for raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit on Obama. Republican lawmakers would be spared from voting to raise the limit and could shift their campaign for unprecedented spending cuts to the congressional appropriations process, where the risk of stalemate is shutting down the government instead of capsizing the U.S. economy. However, they would lose the approaching deadline as leverage to pursue their cost-cutting agenda.
The proposal is “not my first choice,” McConnell told reporters. But with a bipartisan agreement looking increasingly doubtful, he said, “we’re certainly not going to send a signal to the markets and to the American people that default is an option.”
Hey power brokers….the reason Obama is sounding so desperate is because he’s desperate. Now is the time to hold your ground. I mean it.
You sound like my office conversations….
Sadly, I think the forces of goodness and light are losing this one. Leader McConnell is losing with dignity and protecting from tax increases that the Administration is demanding.
When the Prez exclaims he’s willing to lose his second term and not yield to this., means he’s freaking VERY desperate!
My goodness, the White House has become a completely ineffectual place.