John Boehner wants to renege on the debt limit deal ...

[WI_DEM]

Via Brian Beutler, David Rogers reports:

In a surprising bit of hardball, House Republicans confirmed that they had been actively considering a plan to tamper with the August budget agreement by cutting even more from 2012 spending in order to put pressure on Senate Democrats to come to terms faster on domestic bills for the coming fiscal year.
Instead of the agreed-upon appropriations target of $1.043 trillion, a stopgap continuing resolution or CR this week would be calibrated at a lower $1.035 trillion level. The idea – promoted by Speaker John Boehner — was to effectively withhold about $8 billion for the first two months of the fiscal year, with the money becoming available only as Senate Democrats come to terms with the House on the dozen annual spending bills that cover government operations.

www.dailykos.com

[truebrit71]

1. Sorry but it's not surprising at all...successful bullies ALWAYS come back for more...

...the surprise here is that the Harvard Grad in the Oval Office has yet to figure that out...

[pa28]

6. He wants that last 2% and he'll probably get it.

Once Eric called his bluff and got away with it Obama was marked.

[DJ13]

2. Obama needs to have the DOJ investigate them on terrorism charges

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Surprise, surprise.

Deals with the radical republicans are worth just about as much as treaties with Native American tribes - they were made to be broken.

[Supersedeas]

8. the games on behalf of Corporate Fatcats never end with these guys

[Parker CA]

4. Well that's just shocking.

[maxrandb]

5. I have the President's back if

he tells them to "pack sand" and they burn the whole damn thing to the ground.

Might be painful for a few years, but imagine how much better this country would be if we allowed the Repukes to implode...and implode they would. Instead of watching the Tea-baggers suck the elephant dry like a slow cancer, why not give them the torch, let them light the fuse...and blow that stinking POS party to smithereens?

You wouldn't even be able to find 2 Republicans to rub together in a Public Men's Room if they do this.

[JaneQPublic]

7. Congress' 13% approval rating may be their career high.

The American public is sick to death of this kind of brinksmanship and "strategery"... they've said so in poll after poll.

While Obama needs to continue going over their heads to the American people, he also needs to begin campaigning specifically against Congress, a la Harry S. Truman.

Obama's ratings may not be that great right now, but he walks on water compared to Congress. In fact, disgust with Congress is the one thing most Americans agree on.