But Obama did offer House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) some wiggle room, saying he’s open to a “clean” short-term bill, an idea that National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling first floated Monday at a POLITICO Playbook Breakfast. “What I’ve said is that I will talk about anything,” the president said.
Speaking on the eighth day of the first government shutdown in close to two decades, Obama dug in, telling Republicans that he’ll talk — but only after immediate threats are resolved. “I’m ready to head up to the Hill and try. I’ll even spring for dinner again,” he said at the start of a hour-long press conference in the White House briefing room, his first in two months.reaching out for the umpteenth time but who's counting?“But we can’t do it if the entire basis of the Republican strategy is, we’re going to shut down the government or cause economic chaos if we don’t get a hundred percent of what we want,” Obama added, pressuring Boehner to hold no-strings-attached votes to end the government shutdown and to raise the debt ceiling.
he's referring to the republican hostage taking they are now trying to accuse him of, what do they do try it out before if falters then the fallback is blame Pres. because that is are doing?
Though some on Capitol Hill have argued that the Obama administration could prioritize its debt payments or find a constitutional workaround in the event that the debt ceiling isn’t raised, the president said he has “few contingencies.”“I do worry that Republicans but also some Democrats may think that we’ve got a bunch of other rabbits in our hat …. There comes a point in which if the Treasury cannot hold auctions to sell Treasury bills, we do not have enough money coming in to pay all our bills on time. It’s very straightforward,” he said.
and there it is the fickle politicians who some are responsible to their fickle electorate and others to a not so fickled driving faction T-Per's. no one can count on everyone, you want uncertainly well here it is in full bloom, you can't serve but one master successfully, they have chosen the money and not "we the people".
