Obama and Boehner Close to Major Deal, Officials Say

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has informed Democratic Congressional leaders that President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner were starting to close in on a major budget deal that would enact substantial spending cuts and seek future revenues through a tax overhaul, Congressional officials said Thursday.

With the government staring at a potential default in less than two weeks, the officials said the administration on Wednesday night notified top members of Congress that a bargain with Mr. Boehner could be imminent. The Congressional leaders, whose help Mr. Obama would need to bring a compromise forward, were told that the new revenue tied to the looming agreement to increase the debt limit by Aug. 2 would be produced in 2012 through a tax code rewrite that would lower individual and corporate rates, close loopholes, end tax breaks and make other adjustments to produce revenue gains.

Officials knowledgeable about the conversations between the administration and Congressional leaders said the details of the potential package remained unknown but they presumed it would include cuts and adjustments in most federal programs, including Medicare.

However, officials on all sides of the tense negotiations warned that no firm deal was in hand yet, and tried to downplay the progress — if only to stave off attempts to block it or influence its shape by hardliners on both sides of the debate on taxes and spending.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/us/politics/22fiscal.html?hp

There is no other way around it and that is how it will be spun.

If there are cuts in SS and Medicare, but no new taxes for revenue, then that is the kind of compromise that Republicans love.

you might feel when you know you're about to be run over by a bus.

What a solution.

With a Dem President like this the corporations don't need a Republican.

Bookmarking.

And waiting for the goal posts to move once again. :eyes: