Well, given a choice between negotiation amongst themselves and not negotiating at all, I vote for the second choice, no negotiations.
I will say the house should decide what they want to do, sans giving the jerk what he wants, send it over to the Senate and put out as many press releases they have done their job and constitutionally it is up to the Senate to agree to a bill before it goes to el jerk. Make it plain and simple, the senate is the obsticle, not the house. If smug Reid rewrites it to suit himself, fine. Go to conference and blow smoke rings at the senate conf members.
In this way they follow the constitution. Going to el jerk and negotiating is ridicules, Reid is cut out and eventually he gets his way later which is to deliver exactly what el jerk wanted in the first place. Meanwhile, just keep sending forward individual spending bills.
"President Obama used his weekly radio address to reject the latest offer from House Republicans to end the fiscal stalemate. The outline of their proposal was released Friday and would have reopened government through December and lifted the debt ceiling for six weeks.
"It wouldn’t be wise, as some suggest, to just kick the debt ceiling can down the road for a couple months, and flirt with a first-ever intentional default right in the middle of the holiday shopping season," Obama said in his address.
"Because damage to America’s sterling credit rating wouldn’t just cause global markets to go haywire; it would become more expensive for everyone in America to borrow money," Obama continued. "Students paying for college. Newlyweds buying a home,"....BreitBart