working with them for the benefit of their constituencies. ESTIMAGE: CAROLYN KASTER/APUpdate: Here's your full list of those in attendance:· Los Angeles, a small coffee chain based in Seattle. Starbucks Corp. which wanted to convert the cafes to its own brandDempsey whose company Global Baristas LLC plans to keep the Tully's name declared victory on the social media site Twitter with the message: "We met the green monster looked her in the eye and.SHE BLINKED We got it Thank you SeattleBut Starbucks says not so fast The chain which has 18000 cafes worldwide said in a statement that a final determination on the winning bid won't be made until a court hearing on Jan 11 Starbucks said it's in a "back-up" position" to buy 25 of the 47 Tully's cafes with another undisclosed bidder making an offer for the remainderThe combined bids of Starbucks and the undisclosed bidder come to $106 million above the $92 million Dempsey is offering to pay through his companyTully's Coffee which has more than 500 employees and locations in Washington and California filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October citing lease obligations and underperforming stores TC Global Inc,m. meaning that there would be no House-Senate deal in the wee hours TuesdayThe shutdown would keep 800000 federal workers at home on Tuesday and inconvenience millions of people who rely on federal services or are drawn to the nation's parks and other attractions Critical workers from the Border Patrol to air-traffic controllers would remain on the job unpaidLegislation was passed however to fund the armed services during the shutdownDespite the drama members of Congress faced no threat to their own pay because the 27th Amendment to the Constitution bars their salaries from being subjected to the annual appropriations process Obama too will still be paidConservative firebrand Sen Ted Cruz (R-Tex) who made himself the face of the GOP effort to block Obamacare through the funding bill pledged Monday to donate his salary to charity during the shutdownRepeatedly Monday amid all the political posturing and rhetoric the House amended a Senate resolution to fund the government to add a one-year delay in Obamacare and other alterations Repeatedly the Senate rejected those conservative-backed changesThe House was expected to pass the latest health-care law changes in an early morning vote The Senate was set to reject those additions when they return TuesdayAs the nearly ridiculous legislative tit-for-tat played out Obama went to the White House briefing room to insist that Republicans give up their demand to tie new money for the government to scuttling or delaying his health care law"One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election" Obama said"You don't get to extract a ransom for doing your job for doing what you're supposed to be doing anyway or just because there's a law there that you don't like"House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) responded a few hours later on the House floor "The American people don't want a shutdown and neither do I" he said Yet he added the new health care law "is having a devastating impact Something has to be done"Even more troubling than the shutdown was that the partisan stalemate that caused it sets the stage for an even more high-stakes clash as Congress must soon deal with raising the debt limit by Oct 17 ? a matter in which both sides concede that failure would be perilous for the US economy and economies worldwide Republicans also want to attach conditions to that vote Democrats said giving ground now would encourage Republicans to take a harder line in that fight"You know with a bully you can't let them slap you around because they slap you around today they slap you five or six times tomorrow" Reid saidMonday's failure on Capitol Hill caused the stock market to drop on fears that gridlock would continue and Congress would shoot the recovering economy in the foot The Dow Jones slipped 128 points or 08%The fight also sent Congress' already abysmal approval plunging to a new low A CNN poll released late Monday found that just 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing while a record 87% disapprove And Americans are blaming the Tea Party and its no-holds-barred-against-Obama stance for the crisis ? the party had its lowest favorable rating in its five-year history at 31%At times Monday Washington seemed like a real-life "House of Cards" the Netflix drama in which DC power players are motivated by dark self-interest rather than the national interestCongress and the government needed to act because there was no authorization for the government to spend any money as of 12:01 am on Tuesday the start of the new budget yearMonday's maneuvering began in the Democrat-controlled Senate which voted 54 to 46 to kill a House-passed bill that would keep the government funded but delay Obamacare for a yearThe Senate then sent the House a so-called "clean" bill ? one that would simply keep government running through Nov 15 With the ball back in their court House Republicans sought different concessions in exchange for keeping the government funded They called for a one-year delay in the Obamacare requirement for individuals to buy coverageThey also sought to force members of Congress and their aides as well as Obama Vice President Biden and Obama's political appointees to bear the full cost of their own coverage by barring the government from making the customary employer contribution"This is a matter of funding the government and providing fairness to the American people" said Boehner "Why wouldn't members of Congress vote for it"The bill passed 228 to 201Unimpressed Senate Democrats greeted it as dead on arrival in their chamberFor the first time since the showdown began there were fissures in the Republican strategy that has been carried out at the insistence of conservatives aligned with the Tea Party Twelve lawmakers sided with Democrats in a late Monday vote on adding an Obamacare delay to a spending bill a minor revolt by moderate-leaning RepublicansRep Pete King (R-LI) who organized a push by a few GOP moderates to oppose their party said it was time for GOP to accept a "clean" funding bill "All we're doing is leading ourselves into a government shutdown for no reason" said KingOn a mobile device He then called a recess until 9:30 a." said Rubin, I am confident that only the U.Just four days after competing in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show There's no other scenario we can come up with other than poison.Please dont insult yourself with the Liberal/Progressive plebian, I want to see people get enough to eat. wherever you are."There was an attraction during the movie, the Republican Party and our presumptive nominee Mitt Romney have been clear. 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