Reid said the Senate will not take up an amended bill. Why would he cave? So
we go over and stay over? And we go back into recession? Swell. To me that is like a suicide bomber. You are saying to hell with all of it, to hell with America. If we don’t get what we want then lets blow it all to pieces and ourselves with it because we are screwed no matter what. At least everyone else will suffer too.
That’s whacked! We must live, so we can fight another day. This is not the hill to die on.
Obama says the deficit is ‘‘still too high’’ and warns that he will not negotiate with Congress over another increase in the nation’s debt ceiling.
"While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they have already racked up," Obama said in remarks in the White House."