'is the President ready to watch the country go into default rather than negotiate with congress'

[spanone]

this is the question savannah guthrie asks jack lew on the debt ceiling battle.

fuck m$nbc.

fuck meet the press.

[notadmblnd]

1. that's the meme on "This Week" too.

Boner saying that the house "WILL NOT pass a clean CR"

[spanone]

2. meanwhile rand paul is declaring they've been passing clean CR's all week

[Chan790]

5. So that sounds like everybody is on the same page...

Boehner won't pass a clean CR and says as much.
The President won't sign a CR that isn't clean and says as much.

Perhaps we need to make it clear to Johnny Boehner that at this point he needs to negotiate to even keep the sequester.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Why the hell they let that twit fill in for David Gregory is beyond me.

He's bad enough as it is. NBC is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with her. Wasn't Rachel Maddow available??? Or, Lawrence O'Donnell??? Hell, even Al Sharpton would've been infinitely better.

[RiffRandell]

10. She's actually not doing that badly.

Throwing facts at Rand Paul and he's struggling....having to pause before answering questions, he looks tired and defeated and speaks like he doesn't even believe in what he's saying anymore.

[GoCubsGo]

13. I'm just not impressed with her at all.

I see too much of her on The Toady Show, and even there she's not all that great. Good to hear that she's going after Randy Paul. Maybe there's hope for her yet.

[RiffRandell]

14. I watch Good Morning America so I'm not that familiar with her.

Can't stand Gregory and wasn't even going to watch when I saw he was on, but (and I can't believe I'm saying this) was pleasantly surprised.

[GoCubsGo]

16. I find myself watching GMA more and more these days.

No David Gregory, Schmuck Todd, Billo the Clown...

I guess Guthrie is a lawyer, so maybe her lawyerly instincts are kicking in today.

[Carolina Lady]

18. thought it was me,

she needs to go back to morning tv. She is awful.

[Happyhippychick]

4. I thought the GOP meme is "don't negotiate with terrorists"?

[Mass]

6. Nice acceptance of the RW meme.

Boehner essentially said the same thing on This Week.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/10/06/2738351/boehner-well-be-on-the-path-towards-default-if-obamas-doesnt-accept-gop-demands/

[spanone]

7. ms. guthrie appears to have forgotten how many times this President has tried to negotiate with cong

these assholes have no intention of negotiating anything.

[DCBob]

8. The m$m will try turn this into Obama's fault no doubt.

However, I suspect the President has some options he will use if we get to D-day without an agreement.

[lpbk2713]

9. To think they want to even consider negotiating in good faith is ridiculous

They just want to involve Obama in order to lend themselves credibility.

[notadmblnd]

11. The Republican house is going to find out just what their relavency is if this goes

to the wire. Because I do think the SC will support the President taking actions to bypass the House to pay the US governments bills.

[eShirl]

12. Is the President ready to watch puppies die 1 by 1 rather than negotiate with Congress?

[spanone]

15. rep. marsha fudge just set ms. guthrie straight....then she cut her off

rep fudge said the full faith of the government is not negotiable.

this is a right wing trashing of the democrats....now let's trash the fact that there has been too much web traffic on the website for ACA

[KentuckyWoman]

17. The President has no choice but sit there and watch. He has no power to fix this.

The purse strings are with Congress. If they don't want to do their own jobs then there's not a whole lot any of us can do except fire the deadbeats.

All the President can do is be a mediator between warring factions in Congress and use what few tools he has if they fail to get the job done. Contrary to the claims he's not a dictator.

[B Calm]

19. Savannah should know by now you don't negotiate with terrorists!

[MiniMe]

20. The repubs don't want negotiation, they want surrender

They won't give up a thing, that is the problem. Give us what we want, or else.

[spanone]

21. this is what the media is ignoring. the right has NEVER negotiated with the President.

hostage taking is their tactic.

[City Lights]

22. I just love the liberal media!

[wandy]

23. If the president is not ready to watch the country go into default this time.........

Will he be ready the next time where the whim of GOP co. is, say, profitising Social security?
Or the time after that when the whim may be elimination of the minimum wage?
Or the time after that where GOP co. demands _____________? Just pick something on their wish list.

This is not about the ACA. The republican menace will continue to take hostages until they are stopped.
Weather defiance or surrender, it will be painful.

[Cha]

24. So what did Jack Lew say? "That you don't Negotiate a damn law,

idiot?"