Obama has no compromise offer for Republican budget

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Washington Times:

As prospects for a government shutdown grow, the Obama White House has been largely absent from the political debate, issuing a veto threat to try on the Republicans’ spending-cuts bill but declining to offer publicly a counteroffer on what President Obama would be willing to accept.

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday said the administration is respecting a process “that needs to take place on Capitol Hill.” Still, without the White House at the table, House Republican leaders and Senate Democratic leaders have been trading barbs through competing press conferences and statements, making little public headway on striking a deal.

“Americans won’t accept the job-destroying status quo, so we hope the White House will reveal, sooner rather than later, what spending — if any — they are willing to cut,” said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican.

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I don't think they will. Obama seems to be an all or nothing kind of guy on the budget. His lack of willingness to compromise is already hurting him in recent polls where he has fallen from the lift he got from the tax compromise.

I don't think many voters will be on his side if he and the Senate Democrats shut down government rather than work with the Republicans on the budget voters asked for.

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