Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: House Speaker John Boehner

House Speaker John Boehner: This isnt some damn game, said House Speaker John Boehner, as the White House and Democrats held to their position of agreeing to negotiate only after the government is reopened and the $16.7 trillion debt limit raised, according to 660 News. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also said the two issues were linked. We not only have a shutdown, but we have the full faith and credit of our nation before us in a week or ten days, he said and WASHINGTON Prospects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend and increasingly shifted their focus to a midmonth deadline for averting a threatened first-ever default. House Republicans appeared to be shifting their demands, de-emphasizing their previous insistence on defunding the health care overhaul in exchange for re-opening the government. Instead, they ramped up calls for cuts in federal benefit programs and future deficits, items that Boehner has said repeatedly will be part of any talks on debt limit legislation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.