CNN---Reid: Senate closer to deal on shutdown, debt ceiling

CNN ^ | CNN updated 1:18 PM EDT, Mon October 14, 2013 | By Tom Cohen and Matt Smith,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

[Breaking news update 1:15 p.m.]

President Barack Obama said Monday there had been some progress in Senate negotiations on a possible compromise to reopen the federal government and avoid a U.S. default as soon as Thursday. And he added that the partial shutdown of the government for the past two weeks was "completely unnecessary," and he blamed the use of "brinksmanship as a strategy time and time again to try to extract extreme or partisan concessions."

[tumblindice]

So they sell-out with Barry badmouthing the GOP every step of the way.
Stevie Wonder saw this coming.

[Ingtar]

Peter King already signed up for the Dim plan.

[11th_VA]

Hey Harry ... NUTS!!!

[11th_VA]

See my post #23

[sickoflibs]

See, Obama is giving the GOP some bandages after the beatings. He is training them.

[GeronL]

me either

Many GOPers just want to look conservative when people are watching closely

[tet68]

Harry uses “partisan” like a dirty word,
in reality it means, “freedom fighter”.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

sorry, it don’t matter cause ya gotta get it through the House FIRST!!

[SeaHawkFan]

Reid needs to accept the fact that the House holds the keys to the vault on spending matters.

Boehner understands that if caves and pisses off the Tea Party wing, he will be a former Congressman next year.

[mrsmith]

“Kay Bailey Hutchison; @kaybaileyhutch
Hope Mitch McConnell can find a way to put a credible option on the table to keep spending at budget control act levels and open government”

Hopes Harry gets everything he wantsLOL!
That talk of breaking the sequester levels was such an obvious ploy: “look we quit asking for the moon- we’re compromising!”

I hope Mitch decides he wants to get reelected and holds out for the House debt limit bill.
That bill is what has Harry and Barry desperately scuttling around.

[JoanneSD]

With the Obama care bill IIRC the senate found some obsolete rule that Louise slaughter of NY found, that when the bill reached the senate they would ‘deem’ it passed,with out voting on it, or something to that effect..

[oldbrowser]

the media keep saying the lie that the USA will default if the debt ceiling is not raised and the gov is kept shut down.

"Freedom of depress".

[GIdget2004]

Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 7m McConnell on floor now: "discussions continue and I share Reid's optimism"

[Colonel_Flagg]

And, of course, any revenue bill that originates in the Senate is black-letter unconstitutional.

[Uncle Chip]

McConnell and Reid can gnaw on that bone all day long if they want to but the Republicans in the House are not biting.

[jayrunner]

Amen! The longer the shutdown continues, the less government we have (I hope), and perhaps the Little Red Hen criers, “The Sky is Falling!” will be exposed and ignored.

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What??!!

I am in front of my TV and they say the plan will be presented to the other senators at 11 am EDT tomorrow.

And it is wonderful.

So stop your scoffing...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They believe they ,...with the help of the media////own the high moral ground....cause people are being hurt.