Obama calls Democratic leaders to White House

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama summoned top Democratic lawmakers back to the White House Wednesday to resume negotiations on averting a potentially crippling government default, as attention focused on a new bipartisan budget plan emerging in the Senate.

The White House also indicated Obama would be willing to sign a short-term debt limit increase -- something he's opposed -- if it's merely a stop-gap measure to allow time for a broader plan to get into place, something that likely couldn't be finished by the Aug. 2 deadline to increase the government's borrowing limit.

Obama's meeting with House and Senate Democratic leaders, planned for mid-afternoon Wednesday, marked a partial resumption of talks that ended last week after five days straight of Obama huddling with lawmakers from both parties, with little progress to show for it. But the announcement Tuesday of a possible deal by the Senate "Gang of Six" was seized on by Obama as a possible breakthrough. Now the job ahead for the president, if he is to build momentum behind the plan, includes selling members of his own party on the cuts to entitlement programs that it embraces.
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I think we all know instinctively where this is headed. I think that all those persons who possess genuine discernment also know WHO the president is -- what he represents, what he pions, and the massive destruction of wealth he promises to bring about.. Those who think they can starve the beast will find the beast has its own idea as to who will now starve.

Well, at least it will take him longer to starve us preppers!