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The political theater going on today is extraordinary!
What is Boehner even talking about? Obama asked for a compromise bill, not a tea party bill.
Mark his words: Mitch McConnell says the country will not default. "That is not going to happen."

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Extraordinary. Extraordinary!

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Nancy Pelosi: "I will not yield to you." She asks: Why with this one president, this time, would we put up barriers to raising the debt ceiling? Good question.

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Boehner Tells GOP to Line Up

Update on the Boehner plan. Tea partiers line up after Boehner makes deeper cuts. But Senate democrats say the bill is DOA.

Boehner is in a pickle with the tea party peeps.

House Speaker John A. Boehner sought Wednesday to whip his follow Republicans into line behind his bill for a short-term increase in the federal debt ceiling despite a new congressional budget analysis that showed his plan would cut spending less than a rival Senate proposal.

In a closed-door meeting with GOP House members, Boehner (Ohio) told skeptical conservatives to “get your ass in line” and drop their opposition to his plan to raise the borrowing limit in two stages tied to deep spending cuts. Boehner had planned to bring the bill to the House floor Wednesday, but he postponed a vote on it until Thursday at the earliest in the face of resistance from tea party-allied conservatives, who saw the plan as falling short of the fiscal restraint that Republicans promised when they took control of the House in 2010. Read more at WaPo

These are the kinds of republicans Boehner is dealing with: Florida's Gov. Rick Scott says we shouldn't raise the debt ceiling. I don't know a whole lot about the debt ceiling but I think I know more than him. This guy is clueless. Watch: The debt limit made easy.
McCain tells tea partiers (those newbie six monthers) that their opposition to raising the debt ceiling is "bizarro"

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Geithner: Short Term Plan Unacceptable

As seen on twitter:

Maybe Speaker Boehner should try this tack: "Do you love your country more than you hate President Obama?"

Watch this flashback on to a time when democrat and republican leaders got along for the good of the nation.

Today, Boehner is coming up with another plan, unilaterally, according to WaPo. If the republicans can force a short-term debt deal, that will mean further damage to our economy, therefore further damage to Obama, which is and has been the republican end goal from the get go. It's interesting that Boehner, one of the key negotiators, made room for Fox News Sunday, whose audience is the choir.
Watch Geithner. The problem for Boehner is he needs some democrats to support his plan because there are some House members who absolutely will NOT increase the debt ceiling. The bottom line: Geithner says the debt ceiling will be raised.

Geithner appeared on a series of political talk shows Sunday to insist that any deal must lift the legal limit on the nation’s borrowing long enough to remove the possibility of a default from the politically heated presidential campaign season.

“There’s nothing wrong with doing this in stages,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “But what it cannot do is leave the threat of default hanging over the economy.”

Further raising tensions at the start of a critical day of negotiations, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated Sunday that Republicans could push forward with a plan this week, even without Democratic support.

That threat of unilateral action further muddles the ongoing talks among congressional leaders of both parties and the White House on a deal that could get support from all sides. More at WaPo

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Republicans Feel Under Fire

Republicans laugh it up, feel like they're under enemy fire. This is all very interesting since it was actually Eric Cantor who walked right out of the Biden budget talks, which led to Obama's involvement. The Biden talks had 10 sessions and Obama is now on his fifth today.



Boehner says the only choice is to cut spending and not raise taxes, when economists say the only way to reduce the deficit is to cut spending (expenses) AND raise taxes (increase income).

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Obama wants deal by Friday:

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Post Game Chill

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Obama, Biden, Kasich and Boehner Golf June 18

Tomorrow at 9:30 am eastern, Obama plays golf with Biden, Boehner and Ohio Gov. Kasich.
The outing is an opportunity for the foursome to have a conversation, said Jay Carney at the press briefing, "to socialize in a way that so rarely happens in Washington."

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