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Title: Obama Stormed Out Of Debt Ceiling Meeting, As All Progress In Talks "Erased"
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Business Insider
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nation ... _cantor_0LGhRQWWhVmJD7S7dxJoTI
Published: Jul 13, 2011
Author: Business Insider
Post Date: 2011-07-13 19:54:32 by Brian S
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Views: 8475
Comments: 13
Update 3: Reuters is reporting that Obama would not back down on the debt ceiling, even if it jeopardizes his reelection chances. "Would Ronald Reagan be sitting here?," he reportedly said. "I've reached my limit. This may bring my presidency down, but I will not yield on this.'' Update 2: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said no progress was made on the talks today. “The president is putting a lot of time and energy into getting an agreement, and it’s tough,” Hoyer told POLITICO. According to Cantor, Obama said that the group has until Friday to figure out "which way we're going." They will return to the White House tomorrow to try to get the talks back on track. Update: According to Fox News, a senior Democratic aide pushed back at Cantor's account, saying "Congressman Cantor is the last person who should complain of people abruptly walking out of meetings." Cantor publicly quit the deficit talks led by Vice President Joe Biden last month. Republicans reportedly used the talks to criticize Obama's proposed spending cuts as "gimmicks and accounting tricks," according to Reuters. Original: President Barack Obama abruptly left today's negotiating session to raise the debt ceiling and lower the deficit, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) told reporters after the meeting. Cantor said Obama walked-out "angrily" after he offered to support two separate debt ceiling votes — a proposal Obama had repeatedly said he would veto. "Eric, don't call my bluff," Obama said according to Cantor moments before storming out of the meeting. "I'm going to take this to the American people." Cantor said all progress in the debt talks has been erased. Developing...
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#5. To: Brian S (#0)
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Here's another account: “Cantor’s account of tonight’s meeting is completely overblown. For someone who knows how to walk out of a meeting, you’d think he’d know it when he saw it,” a Democratic aide said. “Cantor rudely interrupted the president three times to advocate for short-term debt ceiling increases while the president was wrapping the meeting. This is just more juvenile behavior from him and Boehner needs to rein him in, and let the grown-ups get to work.”
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Little Barry wet his pants and
needed a hopey-changey.
#6. To: Happy Quanzaa, Brian S (#5)
Cantor said Obama walked-out "angrily"
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