Posted on 10/15/2013 8:34:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House appeared to reject a proposal by House Republicans Tuesday morning to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, calling the proposal "a partisan attempt to appease a small group of Tea Party Republicans."
"The president has said repeatedly that Members of Congress don’t get to demand ransom for fulfilling their basic responsibilities to pass a budget and pay the nation’s bills," said White House spokesperson Amy Brundage.
The White House also announced that the president and Vice President Biden would meet with House Democratic leaders at the White House at 3:15 Tuesday afternoon. Attendees will include House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
House Republicans are considering legislation that would fund the government until Jan. 15 and extend the debt ceiling until Feb. 7. It includes language that would prevent members of Congress as well as Cabinet members, the president and the vice president from getting taxpayer subsidies to help offset their coverage under ObamaCare. It would also delay a tax on medical devices under the law.
The Republican language strips out a provision in a developing Senate plan that would delay a tax on reinsurance that labor unions have protested.
The House bill does not include provisions that could be seen as a concession to Democrats — a potential sticking point in the bill, after the White House and Senate Democrats have repeatedly insisted that they would not negotiate over the debt ceiling. The president has said that he does not want to set a precedent by which the president's party provides ransom in exchange for keeping the government open.
Instead, the administration signaled support from the legislative package emerging from the Senate, calling it a "bipartisan, good-faith effort to end the manufactured crises that have already harmed American families and business owners." On Monday, the president discussed the proposal by phone with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
"With only a couple days remaining until the United States exhausts its borrowing authority, it’s time for the House to do the same," Brundage said.
Still, the White House stopped short of an explicit veto threat in their statement denouncing the House language.
Ozero won’t agree to anything that infringes on his total control. Bipartisanship with Obama is a simple matter of “you shut up and do what I want.”
Obama seams to be the problem in this whole thing ,they talk about a deal then Obama sticks this nose in and nothing
Samuel Adams
One thing in this whole fiasco that is very clear: the administration deeply fears the Tea Party.
“Democrats pan House GOP budget proposal”
By Mike Lillis, The Hill - 10/15/13 11:05 AM ET
“House Democratic leaders on Tuesday were quick to reject the latest proposal from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to end the shutdown and prevent a government default, saying it’s a futile effort that will only bring the country closer to economic catastrophe.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (Md.), the Democratic whip, characterized the GOP plan as “irresponsible” and predicted an overwhelming majority of Democrats will oppose it.
“They have an opportunity for a reasonable solution that’s being discussed in the Senate, and it is another instance where they have rejected the responsible course that would lead to positive action,” Hoyer said after a closed-door meeting of the Democratic Caucus in the Capitol.
Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, piled on, calling it a “reckless” strategy that will only prolong the current impasse.
“For the House Republicans to come out now and say they’re going to do something contrary to what even their Senate Republican colleagues are discussing seems to be a reckless attempt to try to circumvent what the Senate is doing, which at this late hour … falls short of common sense,” Becerra said.
Unveiled Tuesday, Boehner’s new proposal mirrors an emerging Senate deal by raising the debt ceiling into February, opening the government immediately and extending funding until the middle of January.
But the House bill adds two amendments designed to win favor from conservatives. The first would delay a medical device tax that’s helping to fund ObamaCare. The second would eliminate federal insurance subsidies for members of Congress and top Cabinet officials.
Asked Tuesday if the bill would win over any Democrats, Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) didn’t mince words.
“No way,” he said. “What’s happened is that Boehner made himself irrelevant by not participating in the discussions, so this is a last-ditch effort where once again he’s catering to the Tea Party wing of the party. And it won’t work.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328545-dems-pan-house-gop-plan
Frankly, there is no downside for Obama in not negotiating,and defaulting.
Obama crashes the global economy, media blames the Republicans.
Obama fulfills the Radical Black Socialist dream of his “mentor”, Frank Davis, and crashes the US economy, the Media blames Republicans.
In their eyes, bad things for us mere prols means more political power for them.
Why don’t we ever shoot back with “A small number of Socialist Democrats” who have taken over our government.
While at the same time, the White House's only concession to date has been that they might actually enforce the laws they're supposed to if the GOP caves.
Obama and Democrats DO NOT WANT any deal. They want a crisis. They want to exploit a manufactured crisis for political gain.
This is not about reaching an agreement. This is pure, naked partisan warefare on the part of Obama and Democrats.
Can’t strip out a goodie that Barry had promised to the Unions. Pauly Walnuts and the crew would likely show up at 1600 Pennsylvania, most displeased.
This is getting kinda fun.
It’s looking like that “president stompy feet” thing is applicable.
‘Course, in the end this is going to bite us all, but as John Adams said, we have to be willing to give up our “comfort”.
On a slightly different, but related note...a lot of major companies apparently announced this morning that they are shifting retirees health-care to Medicare. They having a cow at the office. It’s actually causing some of the retired union folks (who are now contractors) to turn on the liberal contingent.
The White House is irrelevant.
Congresscritters are irrelevant.
Sooner or later, we have to “officially” declare them idiots and treat them as such.
As for the MSM, well, I still volunteer to man the guillotine.
With a smile.
During all this obama-reid misdirected dysfunction taxpayers continue to shovel nearly 3 TRILLION in taxes to the IRS for him to do use to PAY THE BILLS
the interest on the debt being about $20 Billion a month -leaves a lot of incoming tax revenue to spend
The illiterate propogandist butt sniffing obama MEdia needs to ask Lew to produce a list of his priorities given that not raising the debt ceiling will require him to cut a total of about 25% from current spending, and given that he has hinted he will NOT pay interest on the debt (by federal statute, such payments are the first requirement of govt spending) and given that he has hinted military and veterans will paid NOTHING
living with current debt limit is not a "shut down" when the tax revenue spigots are still running full force!!!!! the cuts in spending would be only 12% more than is cut now
thanks to Mark Levin for the education in how things really are
/johnny
The Tea Party is NOT going anywhere. Getting down and dirty, and fighting political block by political block has sure as hell shaken up the status quo.
The frenzy that resulted in the media and on the Left, and among the GOP, and the avalanche that fell upon Lee and Cruz, has rightfully made heroes out of them and infantry out of us.
Resistance is hard. Bring it on!
Rick Moran, American Thinker:
“Senators McConnell and Reid are apparently very close to an agreement that would raise the debt ceiling into early February, fund the government through late January, and establish a super-committee of sorts to hash out budget and fiscal issues like tax and entitlement reform.
There are easily 60 votes for the plan in the Senate so the question becomes, will House Republicans derail the compromise and send the country into near uncharted waters of a default?
There will be enormous pressure on Speaker Boehner to bring the Senate bill to the floor even if more than half the GOP caucus opposes it. If that happens, it seems pretty clear that Boehner will need almost all the Democrats in the House to vote with him to pass the bill.
Are the Democrats of a mind to be charitable?
Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.), a member of Republican leadership, didn’t seem comfortable with the Senate package. Asked if there was anything he likes, Lankford said “not that I’ve seen so far.” Moments later, Lankford was huddling with Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the House floor.
“That’s a long time, that’s a lot of dollars,” Lankford said of the debt ceiling hike. “I’m going to have to see, is that a date certain? Is that give them the time to be able to reload all the extraordinary measures, so it’s really a debt ceiling increase to May or June?”
The buzz in the Republican cloakroom and on the floor was that the House was being asked to vote for a clean debt limit and continuing resolution - in short, the concessions won by McConnell were not victories at all. One House Republican said they would be lucky to find 20 GOP lawmakers willing to vote for this proposal.
Time is running short: The U.S. government’s borrowing authority runs out Thursday.
Boehner, Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will test the waters Tuesday morning in a House Republican Conference meeting. Aides say Boehner will spend most of the time gauging the reaction of his lawmakers........”
“The Republican language strips out a provision in a developing Senate plan that would delay a tax on reinsurance that labor unions have protested.”
I hope they stick to this. The labor unions had a big part in this. I worked with a labor union when this was going down and they were confident that they would not have to give up their Cadillac plans.
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