Dear Mister President
I think I speak for probably EVERYONE who voted for you that CHANGE to the Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security programs is NOT whan we voted you into office to accomplish.
What he had HOPED was that you would bring CHANGE to the hopeless GRIDLOCK that the GOP has been causing, singlehandedly, since Bush 43 took office, and even AFTER we voted many of them out of office before 2008.
Now you have allowed the GOP to stall, filibuster, bluff and run out the clock until we are in the 11th hour, and close to defaulting.
So NOW you say you're almost prepared to sign a deal, BUT you are allowing the GOP to back you into a corner, and you INSIST, for some unfathomable reason, on including SPENDING REDUCTIONS in any bill that will raise the debt ceiling.
we say - raise the damn debt ceiling, let the GOP sue you and ride that all the way to re-election - let the GOP TRY to explain that they are suing you to UNDO the debt ceiling increase that SAVED THE ECONOMY, and solved the gridlock crisis THEY CAUSED!
DO IT, and then EXPLAIN WHY YOU DID IT TO AMERICA - PLEASE! It's SIMPLE! and Americans will understand and applaud your emergency action when their credit card rates don't soar, and their mortgage payments don't increase! JUST DO IT!