GOP senators pessimistic on shutdown, debt deal

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

GOP senators pessimistic on shutdown, debt deal

Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 12:59 p.m. EDT October 13, 2013

WASHINGTON — A deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit by Oct. 17 to avoid default appears unlikely, two Republican senators said Sunday.

Senators are seeking to craft an agreement after the House of Representatives failed to do so. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on ABC's This Week that a Democratic proposal to increase spending beyond limits set by automatic budget cuts -- known as sequestration -- cannot be supported by Republicans.

He doesn't anticipate a deal by the Oct. 17 deadline.

"I don't see one," Graham said. "If you break spending caps you're not going to get any Republicans in the Senate."

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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/13/senators-rand-paul-lindsey-graham-government-shutdown/2975603/

[gopiscrap]

1. I can't beleve these asshats are really going

to go thru with it.

[DCBob]

2. I dont understand how they can think defaulting is better than simply raising the debt ceiling..

for few months. Its insane.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. "Death to America,"

screams the GOP.