this time fer shure!!
Despite this:
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This:
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release October 08, 2013
Readout of the President’s Call to House Speaker John BoehnerLate this morning, the President telephoned Speaker John Boehner from the Oval Office and repeated what he told him when they met at the White House last week: the President is willing to negotiate with Republicans — after the threat of government shutdown and default have been removed – over policies that Republicans think would strengthen the country. The President also repeated his willingness to negotiate on priorities that he has identified including policies that expand economic opportunity, support private sector job creation, enhance the competitiveness of American businesses, strengthen the Affordable Care Act and continue to reduce the nation’s deficit.
Like this:
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are weighing a short-term debt limit increase with no added policy changes, such as deficit-reduction requirements, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions.
To, apparently, give them six weeks or so to bring out their Inner Rational Adult which was not allowed out for the past decade or so…
Yeah. That’ll work.
Meanwhile, this:
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that, as long as the budget impasse lasts, it will not be able to pay death benefits to the families of troops who’ve been killed in combat.
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The Good News is:
The Pentagon and the Office of Management and Budget then devised a solution — allowing the Fisher House Foundation to enter into a rush agreement to provide the money up front until the shutdown ends.
Ken Fisher of the Fisher House. They use 95% of donated funds to help injured soldiers and their families recover.
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