My nightmare: Boehner comes back to the WH next week and says: "OK we'll take it."

[Richardo]

:^|

[mucifer]

1. yup

[Parker CA]

2. That's always the case with a big bet. You may get called. nt

[spanone]

3. as long as there is a single tax cut in there, he won't have the votes

they do not care to negotiate...the teabaggers will not allow it

[ClarkUSA]

4. "Politically, he has crushed the Republicans."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x719101

[Richardo]

7. Yeah I just read that....

"Boehner can't even deliver a capitulation." Great line. :D

[ClarkUSA]

13. Yeah, I love it, too.

:D

[Dept of Beer]

16. How many posts of your have I read where you state

"I don't see a bill! Do you know something that I don't know?!"

Now, at best, you are speculating where you were crying about others doing just that.


It ain't over til its over.

[KittyWampus]

5. Who is to say Obama can't raise the stakes even more?

[patrice]

10. Right! They don't know. He's already thrown his presidency on the table. nt

[SusanaMontana41]

6. Mine, too. n/t

[patrice]

8. Mine too!!!

My guess is that there's some plans B, C, D for that contingency, because they have probably had their economic modeling computers working over-time for quite a while running all of the different gaming scenarios they've been constructing out of the feedback.

[Ilsa]

9. Too late. He declined the offer. It doesn't exist anymore. I hope. :-) nt

[Jakes Progress]

11. We dodged a bullet there by Obama not getting his way.

[Me.]

15. Too Right

[ProSense]

12. I'd celebrate

ending tax breaks for oil companies is a good thing.

Democrats have been trying to do this for years.

[emulatorloo]

14. Too late.

Plus teabags would not vote for it and it would not get thru the House.