Obama Blows Up Debt Talks

The guy who is trying to portray himself as "the only adult in the room," has a another temper tantrum. And even though he wasn't allowed in the room, he managed to wreck the good work of the adults who were in the room.

“Sen. Reid took the bipartisan plan to the White House and the president said no,” said a Republican aide familiar with the talks. A second leadership aide put it more bluntly, saying the speaker had 218 votes in the House for his proposal, while Reid and Obama don’t yet have 60 votes for any alternative in the Senate.

Indeed, since breaking off talks with the White House, Boehner has kept open lines to Obama, and the two men talked Sunday. But at this stage, the Boehner-Reid working relationship may be even more crucial, and in a conference call with Republicans on Sunday, Boehner had seemed to give a nod to Reid by emphasizing that any legislative strategy has to pass the Senate as well.

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