Obama to Cantor: "Don't call my bluff"

[RandySF]

Republicans said a tense negotiation over raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit at the White House ended when President Obama stormed out of the meeting with a stern warning to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.): “Don’t call my bluff.”

“It ended with the president abruptly walking out of the meeting,” Cantor told reporters upon returning to the Capitol.

Democrats immediately disputed the GOP account, saying Obama had sought to end a meeting when Cantor interrupted him to get a final word.

“No. Absolutely not,” Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told The Hill when asked about Cantor’s description.


http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/171403-obama-warns-cantor-dont-call-my-bluff-in-debt-talks

[patrice]

1. Cantor should not under-estimate how much of Obama's base wouldn't mind just starting this whole

fucking game all over again from 0.

[Springer9]

2. Makes absolutely no sense

Anybody tells me "Don't call my bluff", I'm calling their bluff.

Somehow I don't think we're getting the straight scoop here.

[11 Bravo]

3. I play in a weekly table stakes poker game. I'll pay for your airplane ticket ...

to Washington (NEVER Reagan) National Airport and pick you up at the terminal if you promise to sit down at the table across from me.

[jberryhill]

7. How much is the buy in?

I'll take Amtrak.

[Bobbie Jo]

9. +100

:rofl:

[patrice]

5. What if they have inferred that you will, so that it only remains to get you to call their

"bluff" at the best possible opportunity for them, no matter what they are holding?

[BeyondGeography]

4. Wow, that's, like, UPPITY and shit

[one_voice]

10. That made laugh out loud n/t

[LiberalFighter]

6. Why would anyone say "Don't call my bluff"?

The person is saying they are bluffing when they say that. Sounds to me someone is making it up.

[Nye Bevan]

11. Sounds like Obama has never played real poker (nt)

[Ragnarok]

8. Call it, and...

...let's get this party started. Enough of this crap.