Good news!  Speaker Boehner has stopped trying to negotiate directly with President Obama on a debt limit deal.  The bad news is that Boehner will now try to work out a deal with the Senate that just voted to table Cut, Cap and Balance.  The democrats in the Senate stand with Obama and even now want Boehner and the GOP to cave on tax increases.  Democrats refuse to see that our problem is spending and not taxes.  They believe that all money belongs to Washington D.C. and it is they who decide how much money we get to keep.  Ignoring persistently high unemployment and the fact the their policies are causing our economy to stagnate the democrats want higher taxes. They along with the media will continue trying to scare republicans into raising taxes or else all sorts of bad things will happen.  Republicans need to make it clear that the President is responsible for getting us into this situation and any consequences following the failure to reach a deal will be his fault.