No it did not, it would have increased the debt ceiling, but not open up the government. Your information is wrong, try getting information that doesn't come from biased, unreliable sites like the on you posted in the OP.
House Republicans told Obama at the White House that they could reopen the federal government by early next week if the president and Senate Democrats agree to their debt-ceiling proposal
That is not what they said, you are just not presenting the facts at all
Harry Reid: “Why Would We Want To” Help One Child With Cancer By Only Funding NIH?
...On October 8, Obama was asked by Mark Knoller of CBS if he was “tempted” to sign the numerous funding bills passed by the GOP-controlled House that would greatly alleviate the pain of the shutdown. Republicans have voted to reopen parks, fund cancer trials for children at the NIH, and to keep FEMA and the FDA going through this partial shutdown. But Obama has threatened to veto any such efforts, effectively keeping the Senate from considering the legislation.
“Of course I’m tempted” to sign those bills, Obama explained. “But here’s the problem. What you’ve seen are bills that come up wherever Republicans are feeling political pressure, they put a bill forward. And if there’s no political heat, if there’s no television story on it, then nothing happens.”
Obama’s answer dragged on, as all of Obama’s answers do. But the point was made. For the first time in American history, a president confessed to deliberately hurting his country to score points against his enemies....
Hey, after all, he's "winning", right? The more pain people are in - the worse off Republicans do. And sure, he loses some points - but politics is a zero sum game to him, and so as long as he's losing less than the R's, he's winning. So the
last thing you want is to take the stories about folks suffering off the television.
They both want a clean CR that opens the government
Exactly. They both only want 100% of what they want and have thus far refused to accept anything else than 100% of what they want.
what they are against, and rightfully so, is the republicans putting up piecemeal legislation funding the government instead of funding the government as a whole.
The government has always been funded in that manner - it is the large, must-pass omnibus bills that are the historical oddity, not the bills which actually focus on the particular spending upon which we are about to engage.
And the reason to insist upon the destructive latter rather than the former is one of the same reasons why you don't want to reduce people's pain in the middle of the shutdown - because people might be surprised how much government they never miss, and if you had to actually justify some of this stuff on it's own merits, you'd have a real pickle on your hands.
That is just bad governance
Actually it is the must-pass omnibus bills to which any congresscritter can add any piece of crap-ola that he or she likes that is bad governance. Funding the government by program is
good governance, though admittedly it does require more work on the part of our "leadership", perish the thought.
and that was done for the sole purpose so they could put out those exact talking points you just parroted. It was a political maneuver and nothing more. They didn't give a **** about the kids with cancer or people trying to get into memorials; they just wanted to score political points.
:shrug: you are free to accuse them of still
secretly being meanies, but the fact remains that the only party
actually still ****ing over kids with cancer or keeping WWII vets from their own memorial is the Democrats.
I am as well; we were supposed to move last weekend but can't until the shutdown is over. We are getting a home loan from the USDA and our paperwork was at the very last stage when the shutdown started and it completely screwed us. We've lost money and we'll likely lose more because we are having to stay in the house we are renting, the rent costs more than our mortgage for the new house will be, until the shutdown is over. Plus the house we are renting is falling apart and the house we are moving into is very nice and isn't filled with mold, has adequate room for all of our pets, doesn't let water leak all over the garage floor when it rains, and the plumbing doesn't leak and ruin the ceiling in the room where our dog sleeps.
Yup. And if the GOP were to pass
tomorrow the "Fund The USDA Home-Loan Program" bill in order to help people like you through the transition, Harry Reid and the President would either sit on or veto it. Because
this is how they view the effects of the shut-down. They think it's a win-win for them; They demand 100% of everything and every day that Republicans don't give it to them, you get angrier and angrier... at Republicans.
Why
would they want to help you out? Having you in trouble is
good politics for them.
This is why I want the damn GOP to stop acting like petulant children and compromise like adults.
:roll: oh please. The GOP has come out with compromise offer after compromise offer after compromise offer, offering little and small and floating trial balloon after trial balloon. Meanwhile the President and the Democrats have not only not offered a single compromise, they have rejected the notion of compromise. When the President says "I will not negotiate", that's not a compromising position - that's an all-or-nothing position. Like it or not, the GOP is the one offering options to compromise here, and so far the Democrats are refusing to accept even that they should have to.