Eric Cantor: Obama abruptly walked out of debt meeting

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Politico:

President Barack Obama abruptly walked out of a stormy debt-limit meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, throwing into serious doubt the already shaky negotiations, according to GOP sources

“He shoved back and said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ and walked out,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told reporters in the Capitol after the meeting.

On a day when the Moody’s rating agency warned that American debt could be downgraded, the White House talks blew up amid a new round of sniping between Obama and Cantor, who are fast becoming bitter enemies.

When Cantor said the two sides were too far apart to get a deal that could pass the House by the Treasury Department’s Aug. 2 deadline — and that he would consider moving a short-term debt-limit increase alongside smaller spending cuts — Obama began to lecture him.

“Eric, don’t call my bluff,” the president said, warning Cantor that he would take his case “to the American people.” He told Cantor that no other president — not Ronald Reagan, the president said — would put up with the treatment he was getting from the House majority leader.

Democratic sources dispute Cantor’s version of Obama’s walk out, but all sides agree that the two had a blow up. The sources described Obama as “impassioned” but said he didn’t exactly storm out of the room.

“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 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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Someone should tell the Democrats that grownups don't throw temper tantrums...

[nickydog]

I wonder if he went to his room and slammed the door behind him.

[Rheo]

I wonder if he went to his room and slammed the door behind him.

After his smoke. While making tee times. Probably grabbed a burger and then did an executive order that the rest of us may no longer have burger.

[Casino67]

His lack of any kind of experience keeps showing. Sad.

[Pepper]

Read this elsewhere

 

 

Reagan: "Tear down this wall!"

 

Obama: "Waaaaa"

[Pepper]

"Eric, don't call my bluff. " -- Head poker player of the Muslim overseas support group

 

 

[Pepper]

Obama is beginning to crack. He's helpless without his Teleprompter.

[EveningStar]

 

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