“It’s hard for the president or for Senate Republicans to negotiate when the Democrats sitting across the table don’t get what they want. They run out and they misrepresent what was a good faith effort to listen and to build trust, claim that some ridiculous deal was made and then claim that the president walked away from that deal, and the media buys it, hook, line, and sinker.”

– Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), on why it’s impossible to conduct a good-faith negotiation with congressional Democrats.