Republican Speaker Boehner says Obama refused to negotiate in White House meeting
Source: ReutersS
(Reuters) - House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner emerged from White House talks on Wednesday to say that President Barack Obama again refused to negotiate with them to end a government shutdown.
After more than an hour of talks between Obama and congressional leaders, the top Republican in Washington told reporters it was a polite conversation, but essentially made no progress
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-usa-fiscal-obama-boehner-idUSBRE9911CL20131002?
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frazzled
(18,402 posts)Until that time, you own this shutdown. Truly, madly, deeply.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)"No."
"Defund Obamacare."
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emsimon33
(3,128 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,837 posts)He's in a box canyon and he can't fly out.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Boehner has repeatedly shown that he cannot deliver the votes of his caucus for any agreement he dreams up. It is a waste of time to talk to Boehner because has no juice.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...I think the real price that House Republicans paid in repeatedly undercutting Boehner in the past is that irrespective of the substantive positions discussed by Boehner, Democrats now know it is a waste of time to speak with him. He has repeatedly shown that he has no authority. If Republicans had backed Boehner in the past, he might have some credibility, but now all he does deliver talking points from Cruz and his Freedom Works backers.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Then he was negotiating with you.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and you refuse to do it. Because of this, the GOPers are hurting America. I know you and your fellow party members don't care, but we do. See you in 2014.
Flip the House and keep the Senate and then we, the people of the USA will finally have representatives who will work for the America people not screw them.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)Instead of, "Obama refuses to negotiate"?
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blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)emsimon33
(3,128 posts)The Republicans may take the country down but at least we will finally hit bottom and can then start clawing our way back up. This crisis every few months and all the hostage taking by the Republicans is just getting too old now!
Triana
(22,666 posts)...there's nothing to negotiate!
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)we do it their way, and they let us take the blame when it fails.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)You have nothing to offer. No go back and do your job.
Send a clean CR. Raise the debt ceiling and while you're at it,
Get rid of the damn sequester. We can play this game all day
And it only gets worse for you and the GOP.
BillyRibs
(787 posts)My pussy hurts too Boner Head!
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Slam the door in Boehner's face. Can I be first?? pretty please?
Thav
(946 posts)To call a meeting and just STARE at them for an hour. Just to watch them squirm.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... send a clean bill and the senate will pass it. Fucking idiot.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)ideas even though government is controlled by 70% of Democrats! UGH!!!
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)DIDN'T HE LOSE?????????????????? HE even lost his own STATE!!!
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)...Democrats won MORE votes in the House than Republicans did. Why are Democrats giving away the store? I don't get it.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Caught off Guard by the Tea Turds
When I listen to them on the news they speak from a Rational place of how Government use to work
You give a little here, you take a little there
you have a disagreement but the goal is to find a common ground.
Imagine going into work after 200 hundred years of it working that way, and finding 80 new people who don't care how the system works, I doubt they even know how it's suppose to work. And they just rewrite all the rules.
I would think any reasonable person would be in a great state of shock. But still trying to play the game by the only rules they know the old ones.
And also remember the Tea Party Playbook, is only read by them no body knows what game they are playing
So let's say the old game is chess.
but tea party is taking the chess pieces and playing Dungeon's and Dragons
CLusterfuk
In way I understand what the Dems are attempting to do. Even if it does piss me off
Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)They just shut down the goverment out of spite. there is no there to negotiate on ..
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Zorro
(15,749 posts)The only thing a bully understands is a punch in the nose.
As a cost-saving move Obama should announce the furlough all TSA personnel and thus shut down commercial air traffic in the US.
That will get the attention of the American people and their Republican representatives pretty quickly.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)He's not giving you squat. The votes are there. Pass the clean CR.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)The negotiations are done.
He needs to be very clear about what the GOP doing and why.
Right now the American public would find some honesty refreshing.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Paul on a hot mic
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Now every Democrat and every moderate Republican needs to Start speaking up loudly and honestly and forget about political niceties. These people don't play by those rules.
AAO
(3,300 posts)The Stranger
(11,297 posts)Unfortunately, we trotted out Pelosi and Reid -- who failed to have any talking points and, as usual, stuttered, got lost, stumbled, reiterated the OTHER SIDE'S talking points and looked completely ineffective.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Don't let their lies sway you.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)Have the republicans in Congress imprisoned in the tower and their estates confiscated. Oh for the good old days!