Does not look good for a compromise in time, according to Washington Post

[Mass]

Paul Ryan is apparently mad because he is not the hero and while the leaders (which I assume mean Boehner and Cantor) speak of taking a deal negotiated in the Senate if there is one, Ryan says NO.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/boehner-tells-house-gop-negotiations-have-ended/2013/10/12/fa0d3f42-334a-11e3-9c68-1cf643210300_story_2.html

The leaders, however, began the meeting trying to prepare their troops for the likelihood that they would have to adopt a deal cut in the Senate. Both leaders explained that the White House is no longer willing to negotiate with the House, that McConnell and Reid were talking, and that a bipartisan agreement is likely to emerge that will need the House’s approval.

But instead of absorbing this painful reality, some rank-and-file Republicans grew visibly excited about the prospect of opposing such a deal, said one person in the room. This defiance was fed by Ryan, who stood up and railed against the Collins proposal, saying the House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year.

According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange, Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as “leverage” for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a “conscience clause” — allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds — and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

1. Fuck Ryan. Time to charge the lot with RICO....

And it fits....

You and I know it fits...

[DireStrike]

2. I'm glad I don't have any money in the stock market.

Maybe it's time to take out a car loan before interest rates skyrocket...

[warrenswil]

3. No compromise, but perhaps a split in the GOP?

It’s no surprise to me a compromise is not happening.
With that said, there is a huge positive upside.
It sure looks like the GOP is heading for a split, like the Rose Perot event in 1992.
We said so in
Obamacare success may split the Republican Party.
Ryan and his ilk are way out of line with a hugely important segment of the GOP base – the business lobby.
Corporate titans are quavering over the debt ceiling impasse; they know it will be bad for business, and for them.
They are pleading for sanity.
They may not get it.
In the (K)now

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. That is the beauty of those egomaniacs.

they cannot play nicely even in their own group.

[Coyotl]

4. Ryan is irrelevant. Cantor controls what comes to the floor now. Boehner does his bidding.

[Mass]

6. Does not matter? If Ryan and the GOP crazies refuse to vote

Cantor will not put a bill on the floor.

And if you think Boehner is out of the loop, you must be joking. The rule would not have passed without his approval. And, given the full support the GOP is giving him in the news today (there is nobody who can take Boehner's place is the latest talking point), my feeling is that you have the positions reversed. Cantor is doing Boehner's bidding not the opposite.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Tant pis

French for fuck 'em.

[Mass]

7. As long as you have a lot of money to live on. For most of us, it is really a huge problem.

[socialist_n_TN]

9. Well there's always bankruptcy, food banks, SNAP..........

and *shock* helping each other out. Of course, a few million of us who are now without something to do could go camp out in D.C. And shout "NO CUTS!" all day long.