President Barack Obama
interrupted the Senate budget talks Oct. 14 by publicly repeating his no-compromise demands shortly before Democrats and Republican leaders were slated to meet in his Oval Office.
“If Republicans aren’t willing to set aside their partisan concerns in order to do what’s right for the country, we stand a good chance of defaulting, and defaulting could have a potentially have a devastating affect on our economy,” Obama declared during a lunchtime photo-op at a soup kitchen in D.C.
declared during a lunchtime photo-op at a soup kitchen in D.C.
Shortly after Obama’s super-sized partisanship, the White House announced that the pending Oval Office meeting was put on the back burner.
announced that the pending Oval Office meeting was put on the back burner.
“The President’s 3:00 pm meeting with the bipartisan leadership has been postponed to allow leaders in the Senate time to continue making important progress towards a solution that raises the debt limit and reopens the government,” said the statement.
has been postponed to allow leaders in the Senate time to continue making important progress towards a solution that raises the debt limit and reopens the government,” said the statement.
The statement did not say whether the Senate’s GOP and Democratic leaders are getting closer to agreement, of if the talks had broken down again.
had broken down again.
Since September, Obama has repeatedly declared that the GOP must give up its demands for Obamacare reforms and for spending cuts, before he’ll provide his signature for the 2014 federal budget bills.
bills.
That strategy is likely designed to starve the GOP of political support prior to the 2014 midterm election.
Obama and his Senate allies have blocked numerous GOP funding bills, including some bills that do not cut spending or do not require popular reforms of Obama’s troubled takeover of the nation’s health sector.
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