“You can talk to Iran but you won’t talk with the republicans or extremists, as you refer to them. In case you missed this, they were elected by people that don’t agree with you. The reason they control the congress is because lots of people don’t agree with you. You have a lot of nerve condemning them for doing what their constituents want. A 43% approval rating means you have some room for improvement.”

Congress has an approval raiting in the single digits, and they were elected by gerrymandering as in the last election somehow a million more total votes getting cast for democrats equals a congress with 33 more republicans than democrats.

Also there is a difference between “talk to” and “negotiate with”

What are Republicans willing to give up if Obama gives into their demands?

Is “funding the government” or “not defaulting” some great boon that the Republicans are granting the democrats?

If it is than we are in a sorry state as we have a become a nation where one political party is utterly determined to wreck the country they are trying to get elected to!