Here is a list of what Republicans apparently believe are problems:
1. Increasing Medicare is a problem.
2. Increasing Medicaid is a problem.
3. Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) is a problem.
4. Social Security is a problem.
5. Interest on borrowing is a problem.
6. Legacy obligations are a problem.
7. Organized labor is a problem.
Here is a list of what Republicans apparently don’t believe are problems:
1. Insufficient revenue is not a problem, meaning no need to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.
2. Foreign policy and big Defense and Homeland Security budgets are not problems.
3. Oil dependency is not a problem.
4. Dirty environment is not a problem.
5. Insufficient job growth and lack of upward mobility, are not their problems.
6. Excessive lobbying and large campaign contributions for PACs and Corporations are not problems.
7. Excessive corporate executive salaries are not a problem.
"Boehner Stands Firm on Demand for Concessions From Obama
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“We’re not going to pass a clean debt limit increase,” said Speaker John A. Boehner on Sunday.
By JACKIE CALMES
Published: October 6, 2013WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner stood his ground on Sunday, insisting that his Republican House majority would not pass measures either to fund and reopen the entire federal government or to increase the nation’s soon-to-be-breached borrowing limit without concessions from President Obama.
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“There are not the votes in the House to pass a clean C.R.,” Mr. Boehner said on the ABC News program “This Week,” referring to a continuing resolution that would provide stopgap funding and end the government shutdown, now in its sixth day.Democrats and some moderate House Republicans have said that their votes combined would be enough to pass a spending measure necessary to reopen the government with no conditions attached. Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, a Senate Democratic leader who followed Mr. Boehner on ABC, quickly countered, “Let me issue him a friendly challenge. Put it on the floor Monday or Tuesday. I would bet there are the votes to pass it.”
