Harry Reid has been Democrats' steel spine throughout the shutdown fight, steadfastly refusing to budge an inch from his demand for a budget resolution that doesn't touch Obamacare and even insisting President Obama not negotiate with Republicans. According to several sources in attendance at a mid-July meeting with Reid, Boehner wondered aloud at one point whether he and the Nevada Democrat could quietly slip some language into a bill to end the problem without it receiving any public attention. "We can't let it get out there that this is for [Boehner] and [Reid] to ask the President to carve us out of the requirement of Obamacare," Sommers told David Krone, Reid's top aide in a July 17 e-mail obtained by POLITICO. The Politico story doesn't say that Reid leaked those "Documents and emails," but the story has Reid's fingerprints all over it.
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