Was President Barack Obama reasonable to demand an end to the federal government shutdown now in exchange for negotiations with his Republican opponents later?
Harry Stein, associate director of fiscal policy for the progressive Center for American Progress, sided with the president in saying that negotiations and discussions to end the impasse should come only after the government has been restarted and the debt ceiling extended. Both issues have the the subject of a week-long tug-of-war between Obama and the leaders in the U.S. Senate, which is controlled by Democrats, versus the leaders in the House of Representatives, which is...
