Bad Deal: Bipartisan House Group Offers Compromise to End Shutdown Impasse

[cali]

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is proposing to House Republican and Democratic leaders a compromise to end the government shutdown by repealing a medical device tax and maintaining across-the-board spending cuts.

Representatives Charlie Dent, a Pennsylvania Republican, and Ron Kind, a Wisconsin Democrat, are leading a group of 20 lawmakers who sent House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a letter today offering the compromise.

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For the past few weeks, Boehner’s hand has been guided by Tea Party-aligned Republican House members who’ve urged little compromise in their three-year drive to undo the 2010 Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Private Talks

Now, the agitation is coming from the other side of the caucus. A bipartisan group of about 40 House lawmakers is holding private talks to find a compromise to end the shutdown, said Representative Reid Ribble, a Wisconsin Republican.

The number of Republicans, including Representatives Dent and Peter King of New York, pressing Boehner to call a vote on a Senate-passed spending bill free of Obamacare-related measures had grown to 20 by today, enough to pass a clean bill if all Democrats joined in. Five of them met with Boehner before he and other congressional leaders met with Obama at the White House.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/bipartisan-house-group-offers-compromise-to-end-shutdown-impasse.html

[IdaBriggs]

1. No thank you. Clean continuing resolution. Nothing else. (nt)

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Oh, for Fucks sake--Ron Kind.

Dimbulb Dino from western Wisconsin. I just got Gerrymandered into his district in 2010 when the Republicans were breaking up Dave Obey's old district to make a safe seat for Sean Duffy.

If brains were dynamite, Kind wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I just emailed him as follows:

Dear Rep. Kind,
I absolutely deplore your reported move to participate in a cave-in to the demands of the Tea Party hostage-takers in the House. They have no standing, as a radical minority group, to block the budget bill, and any so-called "compromise" will set a terrible precedent that will encourage them to engage in similar outrageous behavior in the future.

[rdharma]

3. Who are these "Democratic leaders" who are discussing this capitulation?

Can we have their names please?

The Bloomberg article is extremely sketchy on those details. I wonder why that is?