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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Those aren't even demands, let alone "everything they want". Those are the status quo.
The Democrats haven't attached anything, let alone everything they want, to either bill.
In a theoretical "negotiation", what are the Republicans offering to give, in a give and take? All I'm seeing is take or take slightly less. Republicans are acting as if a functional government or paying our debts is a concession to Democrats.
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If that is "the status quo", then why is the gov't shut down? Why is the shutdown being blamed on the Republicans?
Ah!
Because the gov't has branches, and the branch of gov't that controls the purse strings for ALL gov't spending (as a whole), is the House - not the President, and not the Senate.
So in your status quo, the President and Senate can spend only as much as has been agreed upon BY THE HOUSE.
And that's the problem with Obama and the Democrats. They have not been listening to what the House majority party has been saying.
Obama and the Democrats have gotten a LOT of bills passed and made into law, that they wanted. Now the Republicans want to get some things done from their own bucket list.
If Obama doesn't want to negotiate, then Obama better be ready to run the gov't with the debt ceiling of the status quo. Of course, Obama can't do that, because his budgets have been a dismal failure. Time to start listening perhaps.