The White House Press Secretary dropped a press release late this afternoon criticizing House Republicans for “walking away after insisting that the budget be balanced on the backs of seniors and the middle class.” This despite the fact that there was bipartisan support in the Senate for a plan to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling, which President Obama rejected.
A spokesman for Speaker John Boehner responded to this, and to Sen. Jim DeMint’s concerns, with two declarative sentences:
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