<p dir="ltr">On Sep 30, 2013 9:44 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> any attempt at negotiating is pointless</p>
<p dir="ltr">The hype and extremism you add here make your statement false.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is some room for negotiation on some points. You just said there is none, period.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now, the issue at hand where there is no room is on a matter that had been decided. The minority party insists on revisiting the decision, and is holding up lots of not directly related business (funding for most of the rest of the government), causing a lot of collateral damage, in the hopes of getting its way on this issue.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But this is distinct from there being no room for negotiation at all, on anything - including specifically all those other points of business.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is also the matter of why it is the minority party - and the interests of Americans who are not, or at best are poorly, represented by either of those two parties.</p>