[Cheetahcat]

If this guy was negotiating for me,I would jump off a bridge.

[Migraine]

Republican leaders remain worried that even a temporary lift of the government’s borrowing authority would fail on the House floor.

They SHOULD worry. Those newbies in the House hold all the cards in this particular hand; they shouldn't give them up for love nor money. The financial markets have needed correction for a long time. They've been propped up by funny-munny from the governments. The prospect of such a correction is 1) a normal thing, and 2) obama's problem, if anyone's.

The House must get their big budget cuts and NO tax increase. The tax code needs to be dealt with separately.

[crz]

The House holds the purse strings. All they have to do is target the spending cuts and balance the budget.

[newzjunkey]

"super committee"

We need another damned committee like we need another porkulus bill!

[Gene Eric]

And the jackass stands on the sideline in amusement.

[Logical me]

Dam@it Bonehead, no. No damn compromise and screw the Asian markets.

[RobRoy]

I’m thinking Soros is holding his children in a cabin at an undisclosed remote location until this thing goes his way.

I’m really only partly joking. Something is up here.

[FreeReign]

Okay, I’m raising the Boehner Cave Alert Level to HIGH.

[quantim]

That’s the proverbial example of taking a bucket of water out of the deep end of the pool and dumping it in the shallow end.

Borrowing more money in effort to cut excessive spending is a zero-sum game.

Cut, cut, cut.

Then cut all over again. And again after that.

[truthkeeper]

In the call, Boehner stressed that the path forward would be a new plan, not a proposal offered earlier this month by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to authorize Obama to raise the debt limit on his own, without explicit congressional approval.

Thank God. Putting Obama in charge of the debt limit is like giving a monkey a loaded gun.

It is LONG past time to have cut up these idiots' credit cards, especially since they are in our name. Enough, already.

[ziravan]

Boehner’s ONLY response until after 8/2/11 should be: “The House has done it’s duty to increase the debt limit by passing CC&B. It’s the President’s and the Senate’s job to step up to the plate.”

Boehner shouldn’t be negotiating or renegotiating ANYTHING. The House has already spoken.

[GeronL]

If he and McCollum are the best we got, we are in deep doodoo

[GeronL]

he still hopes to slice as much as $4 trillion out of the federal budget over the next decade

Still pushing the "over the next decade" scam

[jimbo123]

raising the federal debt ceiling to avoid roiling Asian financial markets when they open Sunday

Boner surrenders. The fix is in. The talking points have already been issued.

[Rational Thought]

Be careful to draw any conclusions just yet. Look at the source of this story.

[oldbill]

And will he (and the media) ever ask Obama and Reid for their plans?

[Terry Mross]

Meet or exceed the debt limit increase.

Sounds like boner is scared. I guess Timmy called him and told him just how bad it’s going to be and he’s caving. I hope I’m wrong. ‘Cause from what I’ve been seeing the credit rating is going to get downgraded anyway.

[Keith in Iowa]

I’d be OK with a Debt Limit raise - if and only if the monies would be expended on Social Security (Including Medicare/Medicaid) and military pay and no other purpose.

[Rational Thought]

Via Twitter:

@toddstarnes toddstarnes BREAKING: Congressional leaders - GOP & DEM to meet in Boehner's office at 5:30p.m. tonight.

Well, something is up.

[radioone]

“That would be paired with a strategy for finding additional savings.”

Here’s a set of books Congress could buy to find additional savings:

Matthew Lesko ‘s Free Government Money And Government Grants Library

http://www.booksbylesko.com/