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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight
By Ezra Klein, Published: October 3 at 12:54 pm
To the White House, the shutdown/debt ceiling fight is quite simple, and quite radical: Republicans are trying to create a new, deeply undemocratic pathway through which a minority party that lost the last election can enact an agenda that would never pass the normal legislative process. It's nothing less than an effort to use the threat of a financial crisis to nullify the results of the last election. And the White House isn't going to let it happen.
The Obama administration bristles at the idea that they've been unwilling to negotiate or compromise. They went on a widely covered "charm offensive" back in the spring. The president held multiple dinners with Senate Republicans. He invited over key House Republicans. The meetings were so frequent that the participants were nicknamed "the diner's club."
Nothing came of those meetings. Republicans still weren't willing to talk on taxes. And so the White House grimly accepted that they couldn't move the dial on spending. The CR, they note, funds the government at the GOP's number of $988 billion. It is, itself, a compromise, and one they don't like. But they made it, because they couldn't pass anything else through Congress. And then the Republicans decided to shut down the government because they couldn't pass a delay or defunding of Obamacare through Congress.
As the White House sees it, Speaker John Boehner has begun playing politics as game of Calvinball, in which Republicans invent new rules on the fly and then demand the media and the Democrats accept them as reality and find a way to work around them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/03/how-the-white-house-sees-the-shutdown-and-debt-ceiling-fight/
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How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight (Original Post)
rug
Oct 2013
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I sincerly hope the Dems understand that if they give a single inch we will see this
OffWithTheirHeads
Oct 2013
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OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)1. I sincerly hope the Dems understand that if they give a single inch we will see this
Tactic used for EVERYTHING!
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Calvinball is a great analogy. R&K nt