Many Republicans knew this was going to be a disaster going in. But just as many totally misread Obama. Just days before the shutdown numerous high profile Republicans insisted there was no way Obama wouldn’t negotiate. That was a significant error. Because probably the key driver of this drama has been President Obama’s refusal to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling.
Ted Cruz blasts fellow Senate Republicans but says he will not delay vote on Senate debt deal.
As deal is announced, Republicans berate National Parks Director for shutdown. Watch.
Nancy Pelosi on GOP shutdown strategy: “I think part of it is they don’t want our president to have the successes our country needs. This is one way of standing in the way of that.”
WIth this behind us, let’s focus on the big question: Who stabbed the GOP in the back and cheated the GOP of the victory that was so rightly theirs?
After this, I have to imagine that next year every Democratic candidate outside the South starts their campaign asking their Republican opponent to pledge that they’ll never shut down the government or threatening default again.
That always plays into what happens in January of next year.
House Republicans: We had a great plan but the media stabbed us in the back.
Speaker Boehner says he will bring the Senate debt deal to a vote in the House. “We fought the good fight, we just didn’t win,” Boehner said on a Cincinnati radio show. Asked if the bill will pass, House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) told a few reporters: “I won’t be surprised at all.”
Ted Cruz, who says the shutdown/debt limit resolution is a “terrible deal,” went on conservative radio and likened Senate Republicans to an “air force bombing our own troops.”
The Senate is about to vote on the debt limit deal, in a series of two votes in the next few minutes.
As part of the deal, the Senate just agreed by unanimous consent to go into a budget conference with the House — something Democrats have been seeking for months, but which Republicans had rejected until just before the government shutdown, when they switched strategies.
Once the Senate passes the debt deal, it will go to the House, where a vote is expected later this evening.
You can read the bill here. More on what it contains here and here.