[DestroyLiberalism]

Here’s roughly how I envision the negotiations will go:

Obama: $4.1 trillion

Ryan/McConnell: $3.1 trillion

Obama: $4.05 trillion

Ryan/McConnell: $3.4 trillion

Obama: $4 trillion

Ryan/McConnell: $3.6 trillion

Obama: $4 trillion

Ryan/McConnell: $3.7 trillion

Obama: $4 trillion

Ryan/McConnell: $3.75 trillion

Obama: $3.99 trillion

Ryan/McConnell: We’re not going any higher.

Obama: Then enjoy the government shutdown.

Ryan/McConnell: Wait!! Oh no!! God, no!! OK, OK, $3.99 trillion it is then.

Obama: You got yourselves a deal. Thank you for making government work.

[Olog-hai]

What negotiations? The Uniparty gets what the Uniparty wants. If McConnell and Ryno were to be candid and honest, they would repeat the words of 1984’s O’Brien: “They ‘got me’ a long time ago.”