I'm surprised that the congressional Dems bothered to go too, since they couldn't be bothered to set any kind of budget for their entire term of majority in BOTH houses.
Now they all scuttled up to the White House on some assholes demand that they give up their week-end for more of the same.
Instead of wasting their time making Urkle legitimate- the Republicans should have been seeing how much money they could save by shrinking all those alphabet agencies that are too big for their charters.
Hey! Wasn't the DoE created to halt our dependence on foreign oil? FORTY YEARS AGO- under Jimmy Carter 1.0.
The Education Dept who went from stupid skinny kids who couldn't read to fat stupid kids who can't read- but understand perverted sexual practices by FIFTH GRADE.
The TSA who hasn't stopped ONE hijacker since they've been intruding on Americans privacy since 2001.
From the sounds of this article they politely told him to go pound sand at the meeting. I particularly liked the following:
ReplyDeleteBoehner wasbacked up by Democratic leaders Reid and Pelosi, when he said to Obama, "Mr. President, I need to deal with the House and the Senate because we [the White House and Congress] aren't getting anywhere," the source said.
The White House didn't fight to be a remain a part of the debate of spending cuts, and entitlement and tax reform but Carney said in the statement: "Congress should refrain from playing reckless political games with our economy."
Saturday's moves are a reversal from earlier this week when it appeared that a Senate plan could give the responsibility for raising the nation's debt limit almost entirely to the president.