Budget talks: This is getting nasty

Someone needs to tell the Republicans that you don't get to agree to a compromise, then refuse to accept the compromise without a further compromise, then when you get turned down, claim that the other side is refusing to compromise.

 

Easy to be the party of 'no.' Hard to govern.

 

They call what they're doing "leadership".

Try not to laugh. Cantor's totally out to lunch, and 'way out of his depth.

 

Precisely ...

 

Meanwhile African American unemployment at 16%.

 

Ending the wars could free up a lot of coin.

 

Obama strikes me as the kind of person whom being interrupted infuriates more than just about anything else. To say nothing of the lack of respect for the office (remember that?) of interrupting the president mid-sentence.

 

The discussion of whether the President "stormed out of the room" is pretty funny.

Canto says he did.

The President's defenders say the meeting is over when the President leaves the room, so he didn't storm out, he simply ended the meeting.

 

No one has said on the record that Cantor interrupted the President.

Cantor denies it:

So, before we just take that version of the story as Gospel, maybe somebody should get a quote on the record.

 

Alternatively, we could simply put off the 2012 elections indefinitely. All of this posturing is simply "message testing" for the next year or so.

 

Clearly it was a negotiating ploy on Obama's part. It sure made it out to the media fast.

The posturing of both parties is disgraceful. Does anyone really think that social security checks won't go out on time.

It would be a good way to kill off some people who are bleeding the medicare budget dry. Imagine the stress it would cause someone with a heart condition if their check did not arrive on time.