BREAKING: The President makes an offer to the rethugs on the budget on more cuts

[bigdarryl]

OH GOD!! hear we go http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/white-house-budget-gop-compromise_n_831002.html

[tekisui]

1. Offers another $6 billion in cuts, plays coy about which programs are

on the chopping block.

[monmouth]

2. I think he's playing them....n/t

[Kurovski]

5. Not WITH himself?

80 percent of the country says tax the rich, And President Obama is still playing this like the Refucklicans are the ones in charge.

[Autumn]

8. He's playing someone alright,

I don't think it's them though.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Compromising before the negotiations even begin

You've gotta be fucking kidding me.

[thereismore]

4. Sounds like vintage Obama. Give away everything and then some. nt

[Autumn]

6. So Minutes before they meet

to discuss a funding measure to keep the government operational the Obama administration offered the first formal compromise. Is that how compromise works? I really don't think he has a grasp on how this negotiation thing works. Jesus H Christ on a crutch, what the hell is this guy doing.:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[ProSense]

10. Joe Biden is leading the negotiations

Maybe he needs lessons.

[Autumn]

14. Maybe they all need lessons

:shrug:

"Minutes before lawmakers and Vice President Joseph Biden met to discuss a funding measure to keep the government operational through the fiscal year, the Obama administration offered the first formal compromise."

The way I understand it
before lawmakers and Biden met the Obama administration offered the first formal compromise. I take that to mean that the decision came from higher up. :shrug:

[ProSense]

7. It's the Dem

talking point.

Dems to GOP as spending talks open: We've met you halfway

Say $10 billion is halfway. Still, if that's the strategy, then they should not offer more.

[jefferson_dem]

12. and the usual DU mockery...

From some.

[emulatorloo]

18. And the usual idiocy from Boehner, which everybody wants to ignore

[villager]

9. The usual Obama "strategery...."

n/t

[vaberella]

11. Nothing has been said. Ugh, knee-jerk reaction posts. n/t

[ClarkUSA]

13. So what? According to the article, this is nowhere near what Republicans want.

In fact, the article says:

"One thing Republicans might not get are the host of riders that attached to their continuing resolution, including language that would cut off, among other things, funds for Planned Parenthood."

What is wrong with this? It sound good to me.

People here seem to think it's easy passing a budget with teabaggers controlling the House. I'd like to see what their strategy is for Congressional legilsative negotiation besides President Obama waving a magic wand.

[gateley]

15. Sigh. nt

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[emulatorloo]

17. And then the Boehner answers with some off-the-wall shit and looks like an idiot

A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, Brendan Buck, dismissed the White House number as "little more than the status quo."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/03/AR2011030302110.html