Well, just reading the transcript, and not having listened to the actual interview, it sure sounds like Boehner is going to cave at the earliest opportunity. Are you discussing a deal? Doesn’t answer. Instead, says we have to raise the debt ceiling to prevent interest rates from going up, blah, blah, blah.
If this guy would just get behind the freshman caucus and say, “we passed your debt ceiling increase, there it is, that’s all you get”, Obama and company would cave. Obama knows Boehner is a weak sister, so all he has to do is sit tight and Boehner give him whatever he wants. The funny thing is, will anyone in the GOP House follow Boehner’s cave-in lead?
When you have a Republican House but a Democrat Senate and a Democrat president, I understand that a compromise may be the best you can get. And wouldn't raising the debt ceiling, temporarily, and just enough so as to avoid default--IF you can get with that NO increase in taxes ("revenues" in Obamaspeak) and REAL cuts in spending--would that not be an acceptable compromise? I could live with that. But to give in on tax increases and to not really cut spending--then I would call that a Republican cave-in. We'll see what happens.