Is Obama the last reasonable man in Washington?

It is appears that the President is the only reasonable man left in DC! He has placed everything on the table for consideration. Unlike the Republicans and even some Democrats, they don't seem to understand shared sacrifice. At this point, we can only pray for a deal to be reached between the them all.

President Obama held a feisty press conference on Friday in which he chastised Republicans, particularly House Speaker John Boehner, for walking away from the latest -- and possibly final -- round of debt ceiling negotiations.

A clearly frustrated Obama said he has been "left at the altar a couple of times" by Boehner, who Obama said has some "trouble with his caucus" of Tea Party freshmen, and who even failed to return the president's phone call.

Obama said he went into the negotiations prepared to help Republicans pursue their stated goal of deficit reduction, and to "take some heat" from his party base over proposed "adjustments" to entitlement programs in exchange for between $400 billion and $800 billion in tax revenues. He said he wound up wondering, "can they say yes to anything?"

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