ALERT BREAKING: Boehner, Reid agree on 2-part plan, bring it to WH... Obama says No

[Little-Acorn]

This is getting weird. Apparently (if the message this author got is true), Republicans and Democrat leaders from the House and Senate put together a deal that both found acceptable. I thought such a thing would never happen, but then I through the Berlin Wall would never come down either.

They took it to Barack Obama... and he rejected it.

What on Earth for? The Republican-controlled House and Democrat-controlled Senate getting together and AGREEING on a budget deal that raises the Debt ceiling and cuts spending, is earth-shaking news. And Obama thinks it isn't good enough???

What, exactly, is Obama waiting for?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...eiling-crisis/2011/03/29/gIQAvx8DYI_blog.html

White House stokes debt-ceiling crisis

by Jennifer Rubin
July 25, 2011
8:00 AM ET

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.

 

[compchyk]

OVERRIDE!!!

 

[bw]

Obama wants a deal that lasts past the election, so he doesn't have to look like a spender going into the election season. The Republicans want to roast him over a slow fire during the election. The Democrats are willing to let the Republicans roast him because the Democrats now know they have a loser in the WH.

Zero doesn't get it ... everyone wants him gone.

 

[Brutus]

They won't ever solve a damned thing until they:

1) Quit borrowing money COMPLETELY

2) Shut down entire departments of the gov't that are unneeded and unConstitutional

3) Chuck the entire tax code (and the IRS with it) and adopt a flat tax or national sales tax

Basically, the current system needs to be virtually destroyed so that something better can be built.

But they'll never do it.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Biggest surprise I see in this story, is that Harry Reid abandoned Obama to agree with Republicans.

Is it true?

 

[ted]

The way I see it bammy is in office to destroy this nation and the worlds economy, so he can't let the d's and r's get togather on anything.

 

[mistaken1]

What, exactly, is Obama waiting for?

The complete destruction of the Unites States financial system?

 

[Housecarl]

Well, if Obama thought he'd make this the Republicans mess, in doing what he's done after demanding compromise between the parties, he now owns this mess through the election. Interesting times....

 

[TerryK]

They won't ever solve a damned thing until they:

1) Quit borrowing money COMPLETELY

2) Shut down entire departments of the gov't that are unneeded and unConstitutional

3) Chuck the entire tax code (and the IRS with it) and adopt a flat tax or national sales tax

Basically, the current system needs to be virtually destroyed so that something better can be built.

But they'll never do it.

I completely agree about what needs to be done and also that they will never do it.

 

[TerriHaute]

They need to go ahead and vote and pass it in both the House and the Senate and then send it to the White House for signature. If O then refuses to sign it because it will interfere with his reelection chances, which is the only real reason he is resisting it, then its all on his head and he can kiss any chance he had of reelection goodbye. I bet if they did that, he would sign it...accompanied by lots of whining. The Dems would have been better off with the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill. It had the entire amount that was requested for the debt ceiling.

 

[Rabbit]

O is finished, from this point on he is a lame duck.

 

[The Cub]

A short-term increase (with cuts greater than the increase),

Hmmmm.....gotta wonder by how much......what is needed is a hatchet job to the spending....not a surgical incision for show.

 

[Sleeping Cobra]

Obama wants "the only say" in all this as like a Dictator.

 

[Lilbitsnana]

Reid and Schumer-smoomer threw Boehner under the bus. They held a press conference and blamed everything on him.

 

[Sleeping Cobra]

The complete destruction of the Unites States financial system?

Why the question mark when it is 100% true. Just saying.

 

[Lilbitsnana]

O is finished, from this point on he is a lame duck.

I hope you're right, I don't see him leaving office...ever...unless he chooses to move on to being ruler of the world.

 

[blueridge]

"...Barack Obama... ... rejected it..."


Of course he's a very good negotiator.


Boy Prez. can't put his basic nature aside for the good of the country.

It's his pro-marxist way or no way.

 

[223shootersc]

looks like the Zero and his ability to make everything worst strikes again

 

[Uhhmmm...]

The Washington Post blogger got it all completely wrong - thusly invalidating most of the above comments.

There was no single plan agreed to by two top leaders. There were two separate plans.

President Obama did not reject a single plan (there wasn't one). Rather he endorsed Reid's plan. What a surprise.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/25/debt.talks/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

On Monday, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders unveiled separate new proposals that the other side quickly rejected, demonstrating the cavernous partisan divide that exists.

Both plans -- one by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and the other by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio -- provide a path to raise the debt ceiling through the end of 2012, but they differ in scope and over key components involving requirements for future congressional action.

Obama endorsed Reid's plan, but acknowledged it has little chance of getting passed in the House, just as the competing Republican plan unveiled by Boehner is unlikely to get passed by the Senate.

Is there any chance you might change the thread title? It is certainly misleading, but then so is the OP.

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