WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama will propose ideas for how the special congressional committee created by
the recent debt ceiling deal can reach a deficit reduction plan that exceeds the required $ 1.5 trillion total, a White House spokesman said Wednesday.
Israel, not surprisingly, hewed to the party line, blaming the Tea Partiers in the House GOP for the shutdown and the lack of a
debt ceiling deal, and pointing to
recent polling that showed the Republicans are being blamed more than the Democrats for the mess in Washington — and could pay a price for it come 2014.