Robert Costa, Nat'l Review, reported on WBR Boston public radio this morning that a so-called "grand bargain" was placed on the table last night by John Boehner during the meeting in the WH - deal is Repubs will keep the gov't shut down for at least another week, then the Dems would agree to lift the medical devices tax in Obamacare, the debt limit would be lifted and then the gov't shutdown would end. Boehner has chosen Congressmen Paul Ryan and David Camp to sell it to House Repubs...
From National Review on-line, October 2, 2013, 6:30pm...
Per sources, entitlements such as chained-CPI, an elimination of the medical-devices tax, and delays to part of Obamacare are all on the table as trades for delaying aspects of sequestration and extending the debt limit. Congressman Camp, especially, is pushing to have a tax-reform framework included.
-nationalreview.com/corner by Robert Costa
If this is true, it's unbelievable that Pres Obama would continue to go before the camera and say he won't bargain on anything in settled law (Obamacare) until the gov't shutdown is ended...And it's unbelievable John Boehner would continue to go before the camera and say the Dems "won't talk". Then I am reminded both of these guys are politicians!
Gotta go - today is my volunteer day.
"...the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever"
-Poet Richard Blanco at President Obama's Inauguration, 01/21/13
