Just eight days before the default deadline, the president has finally endorsed a plan to raise the debt limit, signing on to “debt-ceiling proposal by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that would cut federal deficits by $2.7 trillion and increase the federal borrowing limit through 2012.”
House Speaker John Boehner, however, finds that the plan is “full of gimmicks” and “fails to change” the federal “spending structure” nor does it “deal with entitlements.” Now that both sides have plans, will the president blame Republicans for intransigence if they fail to support it? House Republicans have already compromised, with leading members of the GOP caucus denouncing his latest plan.
It seems that for this president compromise means agreeing with him.
Will the president tonight lash out at Republicans for failing to walk in lock-step with him (and call that failure “intransigence”) or will he commend them for putting forward several plans to raise the debt limit while cutting spending? His recent history of public statements on the debt crisis suggests the former. As Peter Wehner wrote about the Democrat’s most recent such statement:
It’s been clear to some of us for a while that Barack Obama is a man of uncommon self-admiration, quite thin-skinned, and increasingly consumed by his grievances. Obama has masked these traits pretty well so far, but on Friday his mask slipped more than it ever has.
Via Instapundit.
Will the president focus on the good will efforts of individuals on both sides of the political aisle to solve the debt crisis or will he make it appear that he is the only adult in the room (and thus show he is anything but)?
His tone? Try this: Obama told LaRaza “I need you to keep building a movement for change outside of Washington, one they can’t stop…”
They? They! What an arrogant piece of work.
Bill Clinton must be awestruck with Obama’s ability to demagogue, prevaricate, double-talk, and lie.
The tone of a younger Fidel Castro.
Compromise means agreeing with him? No, compromise means abandoning the Democrats demand for revenue increases.
The plan they presented does exactly what the Republican’s wanted. The cuts outweigh the debt ceiling increase and there are no new taxes. The fact that they’re somehow saying this doesn’t meet their demands and isn’t good enough is ridiculous.
I hope the Presidents tone is respectful, but strong. The Democrats have compromised on their position, it’s time for the Republican’s to do the same.
Obama embodies the following adjectives: shrill, condescending, desperate, demagogic, short-tempered, angry, bitter…
In other words, expect more recycled malarkey from his past speeches over the last month.
More like: “I’ve tried to be responsible but Republicans just want to help evil corporations and billionaires so they can throw seniors and autistic children out the windows of their corporate jets.”
Is it a position if it was bullshit demagoguery in the first place?
BTW, aj, what happened to “pay-go”?
The plan they presented does exactly what the Republican’s wanted. The cuts outweigh the debt ceiling increase and there are no new taxes. The fact that they’re somehow saying this doesn’t meet their demands and isn’t good enough is ridiculous.
Actually, it’s just pointing out the fact that the ratings agencies have already stated that the US will be downgraded unless we cut $4 trillion and mean it.
You were screaming about the downgrade and what the ratings agencies were recommending, aj. Now you and your Obama Blather Party have come out with another piece of vaporware that ignores those very same recommendations.
You’re just desperately trying to lie and spin your way out of the crisis that you promulgated, you intensified, and that has now completely backfired on you.
Oooh, the perfect meltdown: the screaming Obama ding dong whined about how a rise in interest would be “like a tax on the American people” — WHILE HE WAS DEMANDING THAT TAXES BE RAISED!
Obama really has no one left except the true believers like aj that think he’s the Messiah because of his skin color. Seriously. No one could listen to this fool and think that he had anything coherent or intelligent to say.
The Republicans are rightly skeptical that the Reid plan may be no more than promises of future cuts (that won’t happen) and accounting gimmicks; because this is exactly what Democrats have done in the past. They are right to hold out for more concrete commitments to reduce spending.
Also, 3 Trillion over ten years is barely a nail-trimming on the deficit. More like 10 Trillion is what is needed.
“Corporate jets, blah blah blah……”