It’s not that no one wanted a deal. These things must go to the extreme limits of available time. Otherwise both sides supporters will decide their respective negotiators did not fight ‘hard enough’ or ‘long enough’.
Look at it this way. Suppose your boss sent you to negotiate something and told you that anything above a certain point, say 100, was great. Now, you walk into the negotiations and your counterparts opening offer is 110. What do you do? If you accept, then your boss will say that you accepted to little even though you exceeded his goal by 10%.
Your best course of action is to accept the offer, move to the nearest bar, and send periodically send your boss emails that you’ve encountered stiff resistance. It’s hand to hand combat, blood is knee deep in the negotiating room, but you will fight to the bitter end. Then, right before his desired schedule expires, you send him an email that you’ve got your opponent to offer 5% but you’re fighting for more. As the deadline expires, tell your boss you achieved 110 and are on your way home.
Yeah, going over the cliff at midnight. No deal in sight. House doesn’t even plan to vote. The ‘Good Ole Boy’ Senate is to busy acting like a college frat party (year round). No vote tonight.
Pubbies already caved. Plus for years they have “kicked the can down the road” and the voting public has allowed them to do it.
There are no consequences to the Pubbies or the Dems cause ... they keep getting re-elected. They keep getting pay raises.
Why would they worry about anyone else. They got their deals and their deals keep paying dividends back top
A Circus of Thieves. A Circus of Clowns.
The word to yell at midnight ... BOHICA!
Good luck with that. . . .
At a company I once worked for the negotiator came back from the Middle East with a shiny new signed (and over budget) contract. . . . . .
The response was . . .
See that date under your signature . . .
That's your termination date.