Obama Walks Out

Things got very contentious on the Hill last night during the debt ceiling “meetings”.  Two opposing sets of jackasses hold the very sanctity of US debt obligations in their hands and cannot find a way to make even an ounce of progress.

From CNN:

[Eric] Cantor, R-Virginia, told reporters after Wednesday’s meeting that he proposed a short-term agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling, a position Obama has previously rejected.

“That’s when he got very agitated and said I’ve sat here long enough — that no other president — Ronald Reagan — would sit here like this — and that he’s reached the point that something’s gotta give,” Cantor said, adding that Obama called for Republicans to compromise on either their insistence that a debt-ceiling hike must be matched dollar-for-dollar by spending cuts or on their opposition to any kind of tax increase.

“And he said to me, ‘Eric, don’t call my bluff.’ He said ‘I’m going to the American people with this,’ ” Cantor quoted Obama as saying.

“I was somewhat taken aback,” Cantor said. When he continued to press the issue, Cantor said, Obama “shoved back from the table, said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ and walked out.”

Obama may have a point.  Reagan and Tip O’Neill would probably have ironed something out by now and would certainly have been less embarrassing about it all.

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Latest deficit talks end with a tense exchange (CNN)