“It is hard,” the president said in his press conference today, “to persuade people to do hard stuff that includes trimming benefits and increasing revenues. . . . Reason we have a problem now is people keep avoiding hard things.” (Via Gateway Pundit.)
- Pass a federal budget. The Senate, run by Democrats has not done so in over 800 days.
- Presenting a federal budget that can muster at least one vote in the United States Senate. No Senators voted for the only detailed budget the president has released this year.
- Presented a plan to ensure Medicare’s solvency. (If you look “at the numbers,” the president said today, “Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up. I mean, it’s not an option for us to just sit by and do nothing.” (Via Jennifer Rubin.)) Neither President Obama nor the Democratic leadership of either House has presented such a plan.
Do hope that those in the MSM practicing “accountability journalism” will be asking Democrats about their plans to undertake these “hard” tasks.
Still waiting for the MSM practicing “accountability journalism” to ask Democrats about their plans to undertake these “hard” tasks.
Perhaps if I hold my breath?
Hard to persuade people like Obama, yes. Hard to persuade them to do the right things, yes.
Hard to make them see that higher tax rates could easily result in lower revenues and conversely, lower taxes (plus lower regulation etc.) would result sooner or later in higher revenues, yes. Hard to persuade people who hate freedom and true progress to do things that will result in freedom and therefore progress, yes.
Is he just now figuring out, three years on, that people aren’t falling for his fear mongering and repetition of Marxist propaganda?
All this rebranding of tax rate hikes as “revenue increases” is a dangerous game for the Democrats. So what happens when they raise the taxes by 10% or so as a lapse of the Bush rates would do, and not only do revenues collapse but so does consumption from high to low? I’m sure they will come up with something.
While Bill O’Reilly mostly annoys me, he pinned Juan Williams’ ears back last night over Obama’s debt ceiling “crisis.” O’Reilly said to put it all on hold for 18 months and let Obama campaign on raising taxes and keeping Obamacare and adding another stimulus package to the deficit. That way, the people can vote for the future they prefer.
Clearly, we can postpone the “crisis of the debt ceiling” in exactly the same manner the Democrats have postponed anything resembling the budget.
Obama get to demagogue the mean Republicans while “leading” from behind. He campaigned on amorphous change and he governs without blueprints or fingerprints.
It is time to force his hand. He is good at saying what he will not allow on the table while never naming what is. That sort of gamesmanship precludes the concept of traditional compromise.
Obama destroyed himself throughout the news conference; it was done in desperation & he only sunk himself, despite some of th soft ball questions. He kept rambling along with his basic demagoguery & class warfare speaking in his usual platitudes.
And now the latest; Obama threatens to cut off Social Security checks if he doesn’t get his tax increase and carte blanche to continue out of control spending.
Which, since Obama Party members scream that any reduction whatsoever in Social Security is murdering senior citizens, thus equals a death threat.
Really. That’s all liberals can do — threaten to murder the elderly if they don’t get their way.
It really speaks to just how much Obama and the Obama Party care about the elderly if they are willing to murder them in order to get their tax increase and out of control spending. But we should realize that this is liberalism and “progressive” thought in a nutshell; you will indulge in the very tactics that you once called “murder” if it suits your convenience.
Didn’t Steam Engine operators complain about the rise of the internal combustion engine?
Didn’t lantern makers lament Edison’s invention?
Didn’t the Pony Express riders curse the telegraph for making letters so ‘impersonal’?
Rauche is just afraid of being dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
It interests me how often Obama contridicts HIMSELF!
Sometimes within days.
Now he is scaring seniors…..
what happened to civility….this guy seems a bigger joke than Carter.
I managed to live thru Jimmys horrors.
A democrat finally addresses the
“elephant in the room”.
Is Obama a total boob out of his depth?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/11/pat_caddell_on_obama_does_this_guy_have_any_idea_what_he_is_doing.html
Obama often contradicts himself within the same speech; he did this during the 2008 election, but the MSM papered over it.
I find it really hard to believe that the government would put the US at the worst health risk there ever was by suspending social security payments. Not only is this endangering the health of others, it would cause massive amounts of debt build up and backed up medical bills.