President Obama has 'private' meeting with Boehner and Cantor

I hope this 'hush, hush' meeting will not leave me wondering about the President. I know he says he may lose the presidency over his final decision, but he has to fight for the future of our children. I hope that eventually Congress will do their job as it relates to the debt ceiling. It is obvious that we have a group of people that cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. So they should just deal with the debt ceiling first and then tackle the budget.

On Sunday, President Obama hosted a secret meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to discuss a fiscal agreement that would allow Congress to lift the debt ceiling, the White House confirmed on Monday.

The meeting came as House Republicans prepare to vote on Tuesday on a controversial budget plan that would render their own budget unconstitutional and propose dramatic spending reductions. However, the bill is expected to fail in the Senate, allowing more House conservatives to support an eventual compromise bill.

After a Rose Garden ceremony, Obama told a reporter, "We're making progress."

All eyes in Washington are focused on talks between Senate Leaders Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that would tee off spending cuts in the $1.5 trillion range and set the stage to increase the government’s borrowing limit. Ambitions for a deficit-reduction deal on the order of $4 trillion were scotched after Republicans refused to include tax revenue in a budget agreement.

White House press secretary Jay Carney pushed back against assertions that the McConnell-Reid plan is a short-term deal in an effort to pave the way for Obama to embrace that proposal. The president has pledged not to sign a short-term debt-ceiling increase, but the plan forged by the two Senate leaders is increasingly looking like the only one that can pass Congress.

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