Courtesy of Mish.
Here is an amusing Bloomberg TV video of House Speaker John Boehner complaining about the negotiation process with President Obama.
Link if video does not play: ‘This Isn’t Some Damn Game’
Video Transcript
When we have a crisis like we are in the middle of this week, the American people expect their leaders to sit down and try and resolve their difference. I was at the WhiteHouse the other night and listened to the president some 20 times explain to me why he isn’t going to negotiate.
I sat there and listened to the majority leader in the United States Senate describe to me that he is not going to talk to me until we surrender. And then this morning, I get the Wall Street Journal out and it says we don’t care how long this lasts because we’re winning.
This isn’t some damn game.
The American people don’t want their government shut down and neither do I. All we’re asking for is to sit down and have a discussion and to bring fairness, reopen the government, and bring fairness to the American people under Obamacare. It’s as simple as that. But it all has to begin with a simple discussion.
Translation
This is some damn game, and I am frustrated as hell to be losing it.
Several Tea Party Republicans Cave-In
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