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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (160503)	10/10/2013 11:56:32 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224759

You are saying the President and the Senate must give in to the demands of the House when the House doesn't even know what its demands are. *** GOP doesn’t know what it wants: House Republicans, who have called for President Obama to negotiate, get their wish of sorts when their leaders meet at the White House at 4:35 pm ET. But there’s one problem for them as we enter Day 10 of the shutdown and approach the Oct. 17 deadline for default: Republicans and the conservative movement aren’t sure what they want. Just in the past day and a half, here’s what various factions of the GOP have asked for: •House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan penned an op-ed asking for a compromise over entitlements and tax reform, but didn’t mention anything about the president’s health-care law •Hours later, Speaker John Boehner went to the House floor to insist that Obamacare is still on the table •The firm run by the conservative Koch Brothers distanced itself from any effort to defund the health-care law and instead called for Congress to cut government spending, per NBC’s Michael Isikoff •Heritage Action meanwhile, wants to take the debt ceiling off the table and focus instead on Obamacare (even though it has received money from the Koch Brothers) •And then yesterday afternoon, social conservative Ralph Reed asked Boehner to end subsidies for abortion under the health-care law (yes, abortion) as part of any deal to fund the government or raise the debt ceiling. Confused? We sure are… Not surprisingly, the House GOP conference will meet before this afternoon’s meeting with Obama to try to agree on a path forward. As the Rolling Stones put it, you can’t always get what you want. And that’s especially true when you DON’T KNOW what you want. firstread.nbcnews.com