Each of the conferences is charting its own course to end the saga and evade a debt limit crisis on Oct. 17. But after two weeks of intraparty turmoil, neither side seems to trust the other about what the way out should look like. Senior senators describe little coordination between Republicans on each side of the Capitol on important decisions like spending levels and how long the government should be funded and the debt ceiling raised.

The lines are so crossed that GOP senators asked President Barack Obama during a White House meeting on Friday to fill them in on the House plan, senators attending the meeting said. They simply hadn’t seen it.

Republican senators are maneuvering to cut a big bipartisan deal with the backing of the White House, which could jam a House GOP that is on a separate track in pursuit of a shorter-term fix. Senior House Republicans are scoffing at the leading Senate GOP proposal, while keeping their GOP Senate colleagues in the dark about their latest plans to end the impasse.

Remember kids, all politics is local. LOL.

Hey Dark, here’s another question for you to try and dodge, how does it feel to read shit like this? Your Party is brazenly airing its own pathological dysfunction in the world press, which would be funny if the stakes weren’t just so goddamned important.