Excerpt from article by Ed Farnan:
There is a huge elephant in the living room; and many folks have started to notice it.
Fresh on the heels of Obamas eagerness to negotiate with two known terrorist states, Syria and Iran, as well as his high profile acquiescence to Russias President Putin in averting a violent confrontation in the Mideast, many are questioning why he wont even sit down and negotiate with fellow Americans of another political party to find a budget solution.
Obama decrees that the House of Representatives need to do their job. In other words, sit down, shut up, and rubber-stamp what President Obama and Harry Reid want.
In the face of the urgency, Obama spent a leisurely weekend golfing and attending parties. Over the weekend, Harry Reid let the Senate go home and enjoy family time. The House of Representatives stayed on the job throughout the weekend offering alternatives, trying to find a way to get an agreement.
The main bone of contention has been the implementation of the heavily flawed Obamacare legislation. The bill has so many defects that President Obama himself has made exceptions, carve outs, and delays to many of his supporters. This in itself is an admission that the law is not ready to be enacted on the rest of the country. This is also an unlawful way to re-write legislation.
But perhaps the most insulting part of the law is that President Obama, Congressional political appointees, and their staffs are exempted or specially subsidized from it
.and that is creating a lot of resentment.
The latest rumored proposal from the House is that they want to delay the individual mandate for Obamacare for one year, just like what President Obama gave to corporations. Additionally, a demand that all political leaders in Washington be subject to Obamacare. All other provisions of the Continuing Resolution would be funded.
All indications from Harry Reid and President Obama are that they will accept no changes to their demands and want the budget resolution bill passed intact with Obamacare untouched.
If anything comes out of this, it will magnify the Presidents unwillingness to negotiate with Republicans on almost any level; yet he seems eager to negotiate with terror states and repressive regimes.
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