No deal

I hope this is true. The Hill is reporting Obama rejected the GOP's lame offer:

President Obama signaled Saturday that he wouldn't accept the Republicans' offer for a short-term increase in the nation's debt limit.

"Manufacturing crises to extract massive concessions isn’t how our democracy works, and we have to stop it," Obama said. "Politics is a battle of ideas, but you advance those ideas through elections and legislation – not extortion."

Hell, I could have written that statement myself. Meanwhile, the twitter tells me House GOPers are scrambling to pass the buck to the Senate so they can blame them for the failure of the Tea Party tantrums to produce any sweets for the angry base. [image via]