Reid: Senate closer to deal on shutdown, debt ceiling

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Negotiations heated up Monday on a Senate compromise to end the partial government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default, with congressional leaders heading to the White House after talks cited as progress toward a deal.

"We're getting closer," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters after meeting with his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell.

Reid added nothing was finalized, and that he hoped to have some kind of draft to take to a 3 p.m. ET meeting with President Barack Obama.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/14/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html

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[regnaD kciN]

1. Once again, the Senate may reach a deal…

…but who knows if the Teahadists in the House will agree to go along?

[tofuandbeer]

3. Could you imagine how horrid Bohner would look

...if the House said "no," to a Senate compromise.
But I fear you may be right.

[sharp_stick]

4. He'll be pissed

but if the Senate can really come up with something that is bipartisan he probably won't have much of a choice.

I think that orange piece of shit has been flailing around for a life vest since early last week at least. He'll be happy to take it and say that the Senate caved on him.

[MSMITH33156]

5. Yes

so far he has been able to take advantage of the media obsession with false equivalency and escaped notice of the fact that the clean CR would have easily passed the House had he allowed a vote. But if the Senate very publicly passes a compromise bill, he can't do that anymore.

[dotymed]

8. A "compromise bill?"

The S.O.B. "got 95% of what they wanted" in the last "compromise." That is why we are currently here.

I agree, a compromise where "we the people" are given what we deserve. Fuck the elites.

[Plucketeer]

6. I realize Boehner is the speaker, but....

isn't it actually Cantor who can bring a bill up for vote? Ala HR 368 that they slipped into law on Oct 1st.?

[MSMITH33156]

2. The House

won't really have a choice if the Senate comes out with a bipartisan deal. Most people are too stupid to realize that if Boehner simply called a vote, the clean CR would have passed.

But when something comes out of the Senate with 80-something votes, which a compromise legislation would, he won't have a choice but to bring it up and it will pass. It will be untenable for him to not call a vote on something that passed the Senate.

The Senate was always the way through, because they run statewide. And despite Ted Cruz being a raging moron, in general, you get more rationality out of the Senate.

[Iliyah]

10. Cantor will just change the rules again

GOPers don't believe in democracy nor F R E E D O M

Like they constantly spew. Acutally they believe in the opposite.

[melody]

11. Cantor isn't the House leader, Boehner is n/t

[dotymed]

7. Damn it! The only damned deal

is arrest these terrorists and use executive powers to punish them and return Democracy back to America.
Gerrymandered districts are NOT Democracy.
Money IS NOT speech. Corporations are NOT people.

It is time for a real leader to tell the terrorists that Gitmo is ready.

"We" fought idiotic wars to "protect democracy ", so "that we wouldn't have to fight the terrorists at home."

What in the hell do you think is happening now? The real terrorists are winning, right in our own yards.

Dammit, just appoint Bernie Sanders as the new "anti-"American terrorist" czar." Give him complete power to end this terror.

We will have enforced regulations that prevent the elite take-over of America again.
Of course, we have to remove money from politics so that "our" representatives and presidents do not remove those pesky regulations down the road. If Holder would have done his job, we sure as hell would not be held hostage right now by these terrorists.

NO more compromises. How in the hell can we be "closer to a deal" when Obama has already (sold the farm) said that we will not be held hostage by these Robber Barons. He said "NO MORE DEALS."

This b.s. has made me understand how violent civil wars begin. Especially when the aristocrats goal is to completely ruin everyone else.

[BellaKos]

9. Your last paragraph reminds me ...

that the rhetoric of late is so 1859. And don't forget, they see "libtards" as The Enemy.

[Heather MC]

12. Fuck a Deal, Arrest the infidels and restart the the GOV!!!!!!

What Kind of Deal we know how Harry likes to Fold after a lot of tough talk
This might suck

[Owl]

13. I wonder what we're giving away for this "deal"....

[AngryOldDem]

14. MSNBC reporting that 3 p.m. meeting w/Obama, leadership has been postponed.

Luke Russert reporting that deal would extend funding to Jan. 15 and debt ceiling to Feb. 15.

[durablend]

15. Yay!

What fun! Can do this whole thing all over again in a couple of months!