The new Republican House Majority

All true, georgeob, but we didn't arrive at this point in our financial crisis by democrats alone. This was the accumulation of past spending including the doubling of our deficit by GW Bush during his eight years in office.

Trying to make out the democrats as the bad guys who threw money at social programs doesn't cut it; GW Bush expanded was is called The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act[1] (also called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA), a federal law of the United States, enacted in 2003.[2] It produced the largest overhaul of Medicare in the public health program's 38-year history.

Good try, but no cupie doll for you!

This morning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called the networks together and gave them an update on the negotiations (as I type this Reid is starting another press conference in the Senate). He said the issues have narrowed to one: abortion. Reid said House Speaker John Boehner is pushing a rider that would make Title X into block grants, thus enabling governors to do as they wish with the money. Most conservative governors would immediately defund Planned Parenthood. The group doesn't use federal money to provide abortions -- the federal money goes to mammograms, contraceptives and family planning for mostly poor women. But conservatives have never liked Planned Parenthood, which does, separately, provide abortion services.

"Today Americans of different beliefs came together again," President Barack Obama said from the White House Blue Room, a setting chosen to offer a clear view of the Washington Monument over his right shoulder.

The agreement — negotiated by the new Republican speaker of the House, John Boehner, the president and the Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid — came as the administration was poised to shutter federal services, from national parks to tax-season help centers, and to send furlough notices to hundreds of thousands of federal workers. It was a prospect that all sides insisted they wanted to avoid but that at times seemed all but inevitable.

Shortly after midnight, White House budget director Jacob Lew issued a memo instructing the government's departments and agencies to continue their normal operations.
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Boehner said the agreement came after "a lot of discussion and a long fight," and he won an ovation from his rank and file, including the new tea party adherents whose victories last November shifted control of the House to the GOP.

Reid declared the deal "historic."

The deal marked the end of a three-way clash of wills, but it also set the tone for coming confrontations over raising the government's borrowing limit, the 2012 budget and long-term deficit reduction.

At the end of the day, all sides claimed victory — Republicans for the sheer size of the spending cuts and Obama and Reid for jettisoning Republican policy initiatives that would have blocked certain environmental regulations and made changes in a federal program that provides family planning services.

PrezBO does not have republicans cornered - he lies.

Why is it that Obama democrats never offered up a budget for 2011 ???

Portugal really ought to tell them to go to hell and just declare bankruptcy.

I should point out that they just REJECTED, in a national referendum, terms that the EU is now calling 'starting points only.'

Cycloptichorn

That's the whole basket; they don't want women to get health services, because under federal law, taxpayer money cannot be spent for abortions, but that's what they say in fighting to reduce spending.

Are all republicans that dumb?

It's good that they both claimed victory, but they actually both lost, because the American People are sick and tired of their politics. The GOP was holding the democrats hostage on Planned Parenthood - a non-budget issue; all politics and not $$$. The democrats cut spending by $39 billion, but hardly enough to make a dent in the government spending - while cutting jobs that'll affect some 100,000 government workers at a time when the economy can't afford to lose jobs.

They're both losers in my books.

democrats appeal to the least intelligent, most ignorant Americans.

It would be a true miracle if either of them had an original thought.