So you believed the presidential sound bite? Even the Dems in congress don't agree with you:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903999904576468771171844358.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop The Obama Presidency has been unprecedented in many ways, and last night we saw another startling illustration: A President using a national TV address from the White House to call out his political opposition as unreasonable and radical and blame them as the sole reason for the "stalemate" over spending and the national debt. We've watched dozens of these speeches over the years, and this was more like a DNC fund-raiser than an Oval Office address. Though President Obama referred to the need to compromise, his idea of compromise was to call on the public to overwhelm Republicans with demands to raise taxes. He demeaned the GOP for protecting, in his poll-tested language, "millionaires and billionaires," for favoring "corporate jet owners and oil companies" over seniors on Medicare, and "hedge fund managers" over "their secretaries." While he invoked Ronald Reagan, the Gipper would never have used such rhetoric about his opposition on an issue of national moment. One irony is that Mr. Obama's demands for tax increases have already been abandoned by Members of his own party in the Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid knows that Democrats running for re-election next year don't want to vote to raise taxes, so he's fashioning a bill to raise the debt ceiling that includes only reductions in spending. But Mr. Obama never mentioned that rather large fact about Mr. Reid's effort. Apart from shifting blame for any debt default, the speech was also an attempt to inoculate Mr. Obama in case the U.S. loses its AAA credit rating. He cleverly, if dishonestly, elided the credit-rating issue with the debt-ceiling debate. But he knows that Standard & Poor's has said that it may cut the U.S. rating even if Congress moves on the debt ceiling. Mr. Obama wants to avoid any accountability for the spending blowout of the last three years that has raised the national debt held by the publicthe kind we have to pay backfrom 40% in 2008 to 72% next year, and rising. This will be the real cause of any downgrade. Speaker John Boehner made clear in his speech that the GOP doesn't want a default but wants more genuine cuts in spending. Mr. Obama is betting his rhetoric will cause the public to turn against the GOP, but we wonder if voters will be persuaded by a man whose concept of leadership is the politics of blame. . On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What the Tea Baggers are doing is essentially trying to rewrite the > fire evacuation plan while the building is on fire, and refusing to > call the fire department until everyone agrees to their terms. The new > 'compromise' in Washington, where you threaten the other side until > they agree to your terms, is going to destroy this country. The debt > ceiling has been raised numerous times in the past without issue and > without strings attached, why start now? > > I am not debating the fact that we need to address our spending, but I > think that needs to be a separate discussion from raising the debt > ceiling. One thing that all of the fucktards in Congress need to > understand is that this problem can only be solved by raising taxes > AND cutting spending. One if those simply will not help. > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "These fucktards think they know better than every other expert I have >> heard, yet, they continue to play chicken with the global economy. >> Assholes." >> >> Wow. The media gurus on the left must love you. You bought their lines >> hook, line, and sinker. >> >> You can't play chicken without an opponent. So, while you may not like the >> tea party movement (along with many Democrats and Republicans), they are not >> the only players in the fight. >> >> While you may not like the plans coming from the right, some endorsed by the >> tea party movement, at least they are trying. It seems the Democrats, in >> particular President Obama, are the party of "no". Say "no" to anything >> from the other party and not offer anything worth offering. Hell, there >> hasn't even been a budget in over 800 days. >> >> According to some reports, there was even an agreement between the house and >> the senate on a plan and President Obama said "No deal." ( >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/white-house-stokes-debt-ceiling-crisis/2011/03/29/gIQAvx8DYI_blog.html >> ) >> >> Before any of this, President Obama adamantly stated that he would not >> support a short term deal. >> >> To paraphrase: >> >> I think when you spread the blame around, it's good for everybody. >> >> J >> >> - >> >> Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - >> Henry Kissinger >> >> Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go >> out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340965 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
