Some conservative media pundits are caving. Bill O’Reilly favors a deal, as does Mike Gallagher, who I thought was a solid conservative.
First, we DO need a deal.
Second, we do NOT need to cave to get a deal.
That is the art of negotiation.
I am encouraged by Boehner’s latest statements: He has not made an agreement and is pointing to the Cut Cap and Balance as the framework. That’s the right way to do this. KEEP coming back to CUT CAP and BALANCE and get the other side close to that position.
Anyone, like BOR, talking about how the Tea party is blowing is, is being ignorant, the Tea Party has just scored some MAJOR VICTORIES. vote in House and senate shows strong support for cut, cap and balance. We need to be firm but not brittle, and hold out for a deal that has real spending cuts, not tax increases, and caps spending. we will get one.
Boehner told reporters there “never was an agreement” with the White House on a grand bargain.
GOP members on Friday insisted the Senate should amend “cut, cap and balance” and send an alternative back to the House.
Boehner claimed two-thirds of the pubic supports the plan, which would cut at least $6 trillion in spending over a decade without revenue increases. This is based on a CNN poll from this week that found 66 percent of the public favor a plan roughly like it. The same percentage also favored a plan roughly resembling President Obama’s mix of cuts and tax increases on business and the wealthy.
“The House has done its job, and I hope the Senate will do theirs. And if they don’t pass our version of ‘cut, cap and balance,’ guess what? That is what the legislative process if for. They can amend it, they can change it, they can send it back over to the House,” Boehner said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/172985-boehner-we-are-not-close-to-a-debt-ceiling-deal