"Let's face it: it was not a good maneuver," Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the senior Senate Republican and supporter of the deal that ended the showdown, said on Thursday in an interview from his Capitol Hill office.
Mr Obama maintains Mr Boehner could end the current government showdown by allowing the House to vote on a "clean" budget bill that does not alter the health law, because that could pass with votes from both Democrats and moderate Republicans.
Analysts say Mr Boehner could end the current government showdown by allowing the House to vote on a "clean" budget bill that does not alter the health law, because that could pass with a coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans.
It would also likely end the case without a legal showdown that many had expected to reach the US Supreme Court.
Now, with another year-end showdown looming over expiring tax cuts, Republicans want to keep the generous provisions for the estate tax and end the enhancements to the working family tax credits.
New Zealand's hard-nosed and high-quality quintet will surely end Saturday's showdown with a combined caps haul of 486 - four will start, with Mealamu among the replacements - and are gunning to end the weekend by securing a second-straight World Cup crown.
Biden, whose reputation has risen in DC after he negotiated a deal that ended the "fiscal cliff" showdown with Congress at New Year, is reportedly considering a run for the presidency in 2016, possibly against Hillary Clinton, the outgoing secretary of state, for the Democratic nomination.
It funds the government until mid-January at the sequestration levels specified by the 2011 Budget Control Act that ended the last debt showdown.
There are a number of centrist House Republicans who are pushing for a quick end to the showdown and are discussing parliamentary maneuvers that would ally them with Democrats to resolve the issue.
