White House stokes debt-ceiling crisis

[AntZ]

White House stokes debt-ceiling crisis

By Jennifer Rubin

07/25/2011



A Republican aide e-mails me: “The Speaker, Sen. Reid and Sen. McConnell all agreed on the general framework of a two-part plan. A short-term increase (with cuts greater than the increase), combined with a committee to find long-term savings before the rest of the increase would be considered. Sen. Reid took the bipartisan plan to the White House and the President said no.”

If this is accurate the president is playing with fire. By halting a bipartisan deal he imperils the country’s finances and can rightly be accused of putting partisanship above all else. The ONLY reason to reject a short-term, two-step deal embraced by both the House and Senate is to avoid another approval-killing face-off for President Obama before the election. Next to pulling troops out of Afghanistan to fit the election calendar, this is the most irresponsible and shameful move of his presidency.

As for the House, why not pass the deal that Sen. Harry Reid agreed to, send it to the Senate and leave town? Enough already.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/white-house-stokes-debt-ceiling-crisis/2011/03/29/gIQAvx8DYI_blog.html

[FBD]

yeah, its awesome they basically had an agreement friday afternoon until Obama put the kabosh on it, moving the "revenue" goalposts once again.

ya wonder why they didnt pass a budget when they had a supermajority? they might have had to own it, and then they wouldnt get to play all these charades trying to tell people that republicans are simply stonewalling and being obstructionist with regards to any sort of good deal for the country. this was obviously in their playbook dating back to 2009 :roll:


http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/reid-played-key-role-debt-bill-obama-nixed-plan
awesome, Reid was in on the deal until Obummer talks to him...

Aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid worked closely over the weekend with staff for House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on a bill to resolve the debt-ceiling standoff -- until Reid pulled out after meeting with President Obama at the White House Sunday.

"He and his staff were writing the bill with us," says a senior Republican. "We were still working on it by the time he got back from the White House." Asked whether Reid and his staff were fully involved in the work, the senior Republican replied, "edit after edit after edit." A key GOP aide confirmed the account.

But the GOP bill to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling, which would avert the coming default crisis, would also require at least one more debt increase before the 2012 election, and the president, working hard for re-election, does not want to deal with the issue again before November 2012. After consulting with Obama Sunday evening, Reid's willingness to work with the GOP disappeared. (The White House has all along blamed Republicans for blowing up the talks.)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

yeah, its awesome they basically had an agreement friday afternoon until Obama put the kabosh on it, moving the "revenue" goalposts once again.

Yup, it was a complete joke...and yet there was the president on TV Friday afternoon blaming Boehner for walking out of the negotiations.