Obama to Boehner; Just let the House Vote to prove your claim

Seems like a logical, practical request to me.... why not let the House vote and let's ALL see if the votes are there? We know for certain that would be something the Republicans would be screaming for and demanding if the shoe were on the other foot.   Obama's suspicion is correct.  The votes are there, but Boehner and the Tea Party he has to please don't want to close the shutdown unless and until they are able to extract something--ANYthing--from Obama to satisfy their giant egoic obsession to not lose face.  We are all being held hostage to their puerile demands.  They call themselves Patriots, but they are as far from that as is humanly possible. They don't care about the country or its people -- they only care about their own image -- and the votes they can get at the next election.  And...oh, yes, let's not forget their extreme hatred of  Obama and their oft-stated mission to bring him down in any way they can.  I predict that intelligent, thinking Republican voters will be deserting the GOP sinking ship in the 2014 elections.

OBAMA TO BOEHNBER: BRING THE VOTE AND LET"S SEE WHERE WE ALL STAND -- REALLY
Huffington Post

President Barack Obama challenged House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Monday to prove that he didn't have the votes to pass a "clean" continuing resolution through the House of Representatives to end the government shutdown.

"If Republicans and Speaker Boehner are saying there are not enough votes, then they should prove it," he said in a speech at FEMA headquarters. "Let the bill go to the floor and lets see what happens. Just vote. Let every member of Congress vote their conscience and they can determine whether or not they want to shut the government down."

"My suspicion is, my very strong suspicion is, there are enough votes there, and the reason Speaker Boehner hasn't called a vote on it is because he doesn't apparently want to see the government shutdown end at the moment unless he's able to extract concessions that don't have anything to do with budget," Obama said.

Boehner claimed the House didn't have the votes to pass a clean continuing resolution Sunday on ABC's "This Week." But at least 22 Republicans are on the record supporting a "clean" bill, and if they joined all 200 House Democrats to vote for one, the bill would pass and the government shutdown would end.