Reading from prepared notes at the White House, the President confirmed what many suspected all along: President Barack Obama does not like green eggs and ham.
At the end of his remarks the President appears to change positions and be open to having them with a fox and in a box, but as any regular reader of Daily Kos knows, the only acceptable interpretation of President Obama's words and motivations is to assume the worst.
In other news, Sen. McConnell's debt ceiling proposal splits both parties as it isn't a clear, clean path to raising the debt ceiling.
McConnell’s gambit splits both parties
...several Democrats voiced concerns.
“The McConnell plan does nothing about the debt! How can that be?” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who Monday announced a plan that would cut $4 trillion from the deficit over the next decade.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) also criticized McConnell’s plan, saying on Bill Press’s radio show that it “punts the ball down the road.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stopped short of endorsing the proposal, but said it had “merit"....
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), also a committee member, said he was uncomfortable about heaping all the responsibility — and expected political blame — on Obama.
“To say it’s only the president’s problem is irresponsible,” Begich said. “Did the people who have been here for 10 years suddenly get amnesia? They helped drive up the deficit. This is everybody’s problem — the president’s and Congress’s.”
During his appearance on Ingraham’s show, McConnell said, “If we go into default, [the president] will say that Republicans are making the economy worse ... The president will have the bully pulpit to blame the Republicans for all of this destruction.”
He added, “I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy.” (Yep. This is absolutely the guy to trust when it comes to the best course the President should take.)
Tea Party legislators in the House are giving McConnell’s proposal a thumbs-down.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) distanced herself from it, saying, “I’ve been here long enough that I’ve seen a lot of smoke and mirrors … ”
A person familiar with a meeting that took place between Obama and congressional leaders Tuesday afternoon at the White House said they neither endorsed nor dismissed McConnell’s contingency plan.
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Meanwhile, President Obama received support for his ham and eggs proposal from an unlikely source:
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