[news] What was achieved in Obama and Boehner orations?

If anything, their speeches gave the impression of the two entrenching more deeply.Boehner characterized Obama as a spendthrift who only came to see the value of deficit reduction though Republican persistence.Monday night, they continued that trend on national television.

Though at this point, a faint hope is as bright as any.What they most have in common is that neither is likely to pass Congress, University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato told the Monitor.With polls suggesting, however, that the American people are disengaged, confused, or disgusted by Washington's inability to resolve the issue, it is a faint hope.The Republicans do not.The few olive branches that were extended were more like partisan fig leaves.House Republicans and Senate Democrats on Monday introduced their competing plans to solve the debt ceiling standoff.

In separate primetime televised speeches, Messrs.It is, they both agree, a fundamental difference in how each views the political world.The clear goal of the pair was to appeal over the head of the other to the American people, in hopes that somehow, they might change a dynamic that appears now to be repeating itself with diminishing results.The president wants Republicans to pass a bill that would compel the wealthiest Americans to "share in the sacrifice" of a deal through new tax revenues.Obama and Boehner told the country what has been well known for more than a month.Obama browbeat Republicans with a quote from Ronald Reagan from debt-ceiling debates past: “Would you rather reduce deficits and interest rates by raising revenue from those who are not now paying their fair share, or would you rather accept larger budget deficits, higher interest rates, and higher unemployment?For weeks now, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have been speaking past each other at the negotiating table – unable to find compromise on a deal to trim the deficit and raise the national debt ceiling.And yet on Monday night neither Obama nor Boehner offered an inkling as to how that gap is to be bridged before the federal government runs out of money to pay all its bills on Aug.

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