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Related: About this forumWhy John Boehner might have no choice but ‘unconditional surrender’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/10/09/why-john-boehner-might-have-no-choice-but-unconditional-surrender/The government shutdown has reached its ninth day and Boehners outlook now is arguably worse than it was the start of the shutdown. Polling shows the public blames congressional Republicans more than Obama, Democrats havent budged from their demand for a clean bill to fund the government, and the shutdown is encroaching on the deadline to raise the debt ceiling.
What Boehner needs is an solution, and fast one, ideally, that satisfies the cast-iron conservatives as much as possible but can also win the support of the Democratic Senate and Obama.
So far, there are no obvious options. And previous efforts have led the speaker nowhere.
He has repeatedly called for Democrats to negotiate with him. They have repeatedly responded that they will only talk after the government is funded and the debt ceiling is raised. The House passed three stopgap spending bills leading up to the shutdown that took aim at Obamacare. The Senate swiftly rejected all of them.
In short, its been back to square one again and again.
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Why John Boehner might have no choice but ‘unconditional surrender’ (Original Post)
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Oct 2013
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samsingh
(17,601 posts)1. the Democrats already negotiated with them - boehner like a filthy piece of crap - reneged and lied
as far as I understand.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)2. Boner, to media: "We (Repugs) got 98% of what we asked for."
T'boners of America: "That ain't enough. We want 150%."
CIT13
(99 posts)3. The orange boner needs to read The Constitution - he's in default on his oath of office.