Bombshell from Dana Bash on Anderson Cooper

[Justice]

Last edited Fri Oct 4, 2013, 02:21 AM - Edit history (1)

She focused her comments on how personal this has become between Boehner and Reid. Blah blah blah.

At the very end she says, as almost an after thought --- "and Anderson, Senator Reid said that in September Reid and Boehner AGREED to a clean continuing resolution at the sequester levels." The compromise by Reid was agreeing to levels below what democrats wanted, and the compromise by Boehner was a clean CR.

I don't believe the Democrats have explained this well - that there was a deal between Reid and Boehner. And Boehner welshed on deal.

Boehner has no control over the House republicans. He cannot even make a deal that is for 6 weeks.

[vt_native]

1. I don't care but

"welsh" is not a nice word.

A related colloquialism is the verb to welsh/welch ('to renege') as in 'to welsh/welch on a deal or bet', which is derived from an age-old 'English' stereotype of the Welsh/Celtic peoples as unreliable oath-breakers,[1] making it a somewhat pejorative term.

[Squinch]

4. Being one of the Celtic peoples, I'm OK with it.

[Justice]

8. Sorry, reneged, broke, lied.

Also Celtic.

[truebluegreen]

11. Perfidious Albion thought the Celts were unreliable?

Projection has been around for a while.

[IrishAyes]

14. Being one of the Celtic peoples like Squinch,

and a daughter of Irish patriots, I'm NOT okay with the term. Thank you for bringing up the matter.

[Flaxbee]

16. How do you feel about the football team name "redskins"?

Serious question.

[nashville_brook]

21. i never knew that...and knowing now, i won't ever use it

thank you

[Squinch]

2. So why the hell is this not coming out of every Democrat's mouth?

[Tx4obama]

5. See article in Comment #3

[Tx4obama]

3. Related article ....

Reid to CNN: Boehner’s ‘job is not as important as our country’

Washington (CNN) – In an interview with CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused House Speaker John Boehner of being more worried about his job than the country amid a government shutdown.

The Nevada Democrat also talked for the first time Thursday about Boehner reneging on an agreement between the two over a “clean” spending bill, and admitted he directed his chief of staff to leak embarrassing e-mails that they say indicate Boehner changed his position on Obamacare subsidies for Congress.

Reid also followed up on his controversial comments from Wednesday, when he took issue with the idea that the Senate should vote to fund clinical trials for cancer patients at the National Institutes of Health during the shutdown.

In the interview, Reid criticized Boehner for bowing to a conservative faction of his caucus that insists on attaching anti-Obamacare provisions to a temporary spending bill needed to fund the government.

“His job is not as important as our country,” Reid said.

-snip-

Full article with MORE quotes here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/03/reid-boehners-job-is-not-as-important-as-our-country/

[Justice]

9. Thank you. This should have been Bash's lead, not gee why so personal?

I completely get why Reid is so upset.

[Cha]

10. Thanks Tx!

[fascisthunter]

6. who says Boehner doesn't know?...

[Dawson Leery]

7. Democrats should have been talking about this weeks ago!

[Justice]

12. Over and over

[jenmito]

13. K&R&T. This needs WAY more attention. n/t

[progressoid]

15. So in addition to Boner reneging, we also have Reid caving.

Yay!! What a wonderful revelation!

[rhett o rick]

17. You need to include the end quotes. Cant tell which are her words and which are your words. nm

[kelliekat44]

18. OKAY, I got it!!! Boehner is going to fix it so that the Tea Party is over for good. He was just

waiting until they gobbled up the rope to hang all of them. Now he is going to spring the clean CR and the debt ceiling on them as soon as they make all the mistakes then can and the majority of even the Republicans have had their fill of them? Isn't that what is going on??? It has to be, otherwise Boehner has just lost his mind.

[blkmusclmachine]

19. The GOPee: America's #1 Terror Organization.

America, Meet Bathtub

[Justice]

20. bump because this story needs to be front and center

We already negotiated - Boehner agreed. Then he reneged.

[Filibuster Harry]

22. Doesn't he always renig. He says he will not shut the gov't down yet here we are. But in his

stupidity he doesn't think he is responsible. NO SHAME!!! So now he keeps saying he doesn't want the gov't
shutdown -- another lie. Next is the debt ceiling.