Dude, dont even play that card on how Republicans have been acting about these whole talks...
Republicans have been pretty clear this entire time: cut spending equal or greater than the debt ceiling rise. It's the President who spent most of the year demanding a "clean" bill, only to have Republicans put that up for a vote, demonstrate how even
Democrats would vote that down. The President who had then spent most of a year complaining that we should pass a "clean" bill then went on national television and castigated Republicans for not wanting to "take the opportunity to do something big". At that point, he basically offered his previous budget (4 "trillion in cuts", greater tax increases, and price controls) that had already gotten
zero votes in Senate up, calling it a "big, Bi Partisan Solution" and accused Republicans of holding a gun to the head of the American people.
The President accuses others of demagoguery in the breath before he demagogues them. He pretends to be the Serious Parent, asking "if not now when". When? How about when he spent
two years not pushing Congressional Democrats to pass a budget? How about when he punted to the Debt Reduction Commission that
HE assigned and then
ignored their proposals? How about when he offered a "budget" that was so unserious that not even a
single democrat was willing to attach their name to it? How about when he accused Republicans of not being serious about deficit reduction and governing, so Republicans actually brought forth a budget that seriously addressed painful decisions, and his response was to accuse them of going after autistic children and peoples' grandmothers?
The President refuses to provide specifics or leadership, but
someone needs to, so he waits for Republican congressional leadership to fill the void and then he
demagogues them for doing so.