Analysis: Budget talk ideas delay, don’t resolve

By Jim Kuhnhenn

Published October 10, 2013 11:30pm ET

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Analysis: Budget talk ideas delay, don’t resolve — Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. listens at left, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, following a meeting with President Barack Obama regarding the budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tentative steps toward budget talks between President Barack Obama and Republicans could be the opening that ends Washington’s latest stalemate. But it would be the kind of temporary patch that Obama has always railed against — the propensity for Washington to govern from crisis to short-term crisis.

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