WASHINGTON -- House Speaker
John Boehner says President
Barack Obama wants a blank
check from Congress to raise
the debt ceiling, but that he's
not going to get one. Boehner says the solution to the
debt crisis isn't complicated. He
says if you spend more than you
take in, you have to spend less. In his response to Obama's
televised address to the nation,
Boehner gave no indication of
compromise. "Unfortunately, the president
would not take yes for an
answer," he said. "Even when we
thought we might be close on an
agreement, the president's
demands changed." The House speaker did say the
U.S. cannot default. He said the
crisis would be over if the
Senate approves a new House
Republican plan to be voted on in
the House this week, and if the president signs it. CBS News' Jill Jackson wrote in a tweet that as Boehner left the Capitol he was overheard saying,
"I didn't sign up for going mano-
a-mano with the President of
the United States." Obama and Boehner gave dueling
remarks just about a week
before an Aug. 2 deadline to
raise the government's
borrowing limit.