Republicans emerge from dinner optimistic about deficit deal

[Tx4obama]

Republicans emerge from dinner optimistic about deficit deal

Senate Republicans are more optimistic about the prospect of a grand bargain on the deficit after an intimate dinner with President Obama Wednesday evening in downtown Washington.

Obama and a dozen Republicans discussed a range of issues during a nearly two-hour meal at the Jefferson Hotel, focusing mostly on the budget, the issue that most divided them in the last Congress.

GOP senators say no new policy ground was broken as both sides held fast to their battle-tested positions on taxes and spending, but the meeting helped thaw frosty relations and improve the prospects of a deal eventually.

“I think really what he is trying to do is start a discussion and kind of break the ice and that was appreciated,” said Sen. Mike Johanns (Neb.), one of twelve Republicans who broke bread with Obama. “Most of the meeting was spent on budget and [finding] a way forward. His goal is ours. We want to stop careening from crisis to crisis.”

Johanns said he is more optimistic of reaching a broad deficit-reduction deal this Congress.

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Full article here: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/286699-senate-republicans-more-optimistic-about-the-prospect-of-a-grand-bargain-on-the-deficit-

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Cat food stocks leaping in after-hours trading.

Fabulous.

[Tx4obama]

2. Wow, you must be a speed reader to have read that whole aricle in two minutes! n/t

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Sounds LIke A Sell Out To Me. Anytime Republicans Are Happy About Anything You

have to worry.

[Heather MC]

10. Yeah I get the feeling Solent Green will be on the market by 2014

Whenever a group of repugs emerge smiling

[Mojorabbit]

9. That was my first thought also.nt

[Purveyor]

4. Slather up your asshole with vasoline...it is coming! If you use a walker, get it pre-positioned.nt

[MotherPetrie]

5. And they ate foie gras terrrine and lobster Thermidor

Obama's treat.

Cat food is good enough for old people on SS.

[erinlough]

12. I thought he should have fed them what poor families consider dinner.

A box of mac&cheese and some wieners!

[MrSlayer]

6. Well, that's bad news.

As everyone knows, an optimistic Republican means there is going to be much pain for the masses.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Champaign, caviar, and call girls all around.

We're gonna screw the little people !!

Bipartisanship sucks

[dtom67]

8. holy crap!

7 or 8is posts w/o an indignant attack by the "don't criticize the President "the crowd?

Does that mean it is now ok to expect dems to support dem policies?

Or are they all busy posting "I am sick of all the attacks on the President, I'm disgusted!"

Or did I kick the hornet's nest....

[LiberalFighter]

11. These are the Republicans attending.

Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Dan Coats (Ind.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Bob Corker (Tenn.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), John McCain (Ariz.), Mike Johanns (Neb.) and Pat Toomey (Pa.)

I think for the most part Obama was trying to be nice to the wrong Republicans.