President Obama Will Not Share Budget/Debt Ceiling Negotiation Says in Effect 'My Way or the Highway!'

President Obama failing to realize that the legislative branch was divided in half between his party and the Republicans last elections is adamantly unwilling to support Senate negotiations with House Republicans over the budget and debt ceiling issues. Senator Harry Reed of Nevada, the Senate majority leader is unwilling to work at all with House Republicans to resolve the government funding issue. President Obama has developed a propaganda putsch to blame Republicans for a potential government debt default yet everyone knows that its the guy in the White House and his party that get the blame eventually; the buck stops there.



The President is an odd negotiator. He threw in the towel to give the rich their Bush II era tax cuts permanently without getting anything in return, and he agitated for that. He has support Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's electronic printing of 85 billion dollars a month of interest free loans to favorite bank, and yet he refuses to negotiate even partial funding for Veteran's education after returning from battle as well as other services for elderly and injured former service members and that is inexplicable. House Speaker Boehner has said he is willing to sign off on V.A. funding.

The President has chosen to make debt ceiling negotiations a turf war with a demand that Republicans sign off completely on what he and Senator Reed want. I have news for the President; financial negotiations are the traditional strength of Republicans, it was an ill advised tactic to choose that battle at this particular time to try to win. Republicans could easily let the thing drag out 60 days or more and let the Buffalo chips fall where they may.

Compromise is on budget requests is requisite for a divided legislature. One can't just refuse to play unless the other side throws in the towel first as the Democratic Party seems to expect in the debt ceiling mess. The President is appears willing to let the U.S. Government debt slide toward default unless he gets his way. It just may, and that crash would perhaps limit deficit spending in the future too. It would be a messy way to correct the history of twenty years of bad federal policy development. 

The bright spot in the dark economic cloud is that the economy needs to be reformed anyway to an ecological sustainable basis. Today a mink or a weasel with nearly white fur stood on my foot looking plaintively at me as if asking- "Why is it so warm in Juneau Alaska October 2nd without any snow even on the top of the area mountains?" If the creature understood English better than Republicans and Democrats communicate on debt ceiling negotiations I would have told it that bad federal economic policy has helped exacerbate global warming. And that's just the way it is.