Every now and again, you’ll run into an Obama supporter who will insist that the Democrat has not raised government spending. Now, not even five months after the conclusion of the debt ceiling negotiations this summer,
The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government’s debt ceiling to allow the United States to pay its bills on time, according to a senior Treasury Department official on Tuesday.
The approval is expected to go through without a challenge, given that Congress is in recess until later in January and the request is in line with an agreement to keep the U.S. government funded into 2013.
Seems House Republicans failed on this one, agreeing to keep the U.S. government funding through the end of Obama’s first term, rather than requiring him to come back to Congress when the debt rises above a certain figure.
Wonder what happened to that “net spending cut” that Obama has been proposing “throughout” his presidential campaign?
Obama wants to spend the United States into oblivion for his union thugs. Prid pro quo.
Meanwhile, to honor Jesus and her rich heritage of Catholic social justice, Nancy Pelosi spent Christmas in a $10,000 per night suite: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078964/Growing-wealth-gap-members-Congress-rule-survey-reveals.html
The article is pretty interesting, it’s actually about how the average Congresscritters’ net worth has tripled over the last 25 years. (Vs. the general public’s, which has gone down.) Pelosi is a small side comment, about halfway down.
Do you even know how many time Reagan raised the debt ceiling? Try 18.
Do you even know how much Reagan raised the debt ceiling? Try “Vastly less than Obama.”
And do you know what Barack Obama said about raising the debt ceiling, Brendan?
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
Oh, that’s right. We can’t expect you to ever criticize black skin. You’ve been conditioned and trained to be a good little racist, always judging people by the color of their skin rather than by their behavior. No matter how much of a lying and pathetic hypocrite your Barack Obama turns out to be, you are completely and totally incapable of ever contradicting or calling him out because pigmentation = rightness in your liberal world.
The establishment Republicans are pathetic. It’ll be the usual song and dance and then they’ll cave. We need new leadership.
Y’know Brendan, if you just every once in a while conceded that Obama’s reckless, 25% of GDP spending levels and monstrous deficits were things to be concerned about, and actually faulted him for some of his bad policy decisions… people might think you were less of a hopeless tool.
Brendan,
I have no idea if your “statistic” is correct, but I will accept it for purposes of discussion. 18 times in 8 years equals 2.25 times a year. Could you, would you, please tell us how many times Clinton raised the debt ceiling? And how many times GW Bush raised the debt ceiling and how many times, so far, Obama has raised the debt ceiling?
And, for the sake of comity, we will overlook the fact that the President can NOT raise the debt ceiling.
I know you have some huge land mind buried in your comment, so please return and show us up for the fools that you know we all are.
Thank you very much.
I wait in anticipation of being humiliated by your genius.
And, for the sake of comity, we will overlook the fact that the President can NOT raise the debt ceiling.
Comment by Heliotrope — December 27, 2011 @ 9:50 pm – December 27, 2011
Heliotrope, you are brilliant.
Since through Reagan’s entire two terms, Republicans controlled the Senate for only six years — and never controlled the House at all.
Certainly unlike Barack Obama, who had absolute control of Congress for two-plus years, and proceeded to run the economy into the ditch and the deficit out of control.
Unfortunately, we have trapped Brendan; he can either criticize his Obama, which makes him a racist by his own ranting, or he can expose himself as a complete and total hypocrite.
It is no surprise that he is choosing silence.
Could you, would you, please tell us how many times Clinton raised the debt ceiling? And how many times GW Bush raised the debt ceiling and how many times, so far, Obama has raised the debt ceiling?
More to the point, by how much has Brendan’s Dear Leader increased the debt limit compared with other presidents? And how large a tax increase on all Americans would be necessary to sustain this level of spending (thus ensuring lots of money to fund Obama’s cronies’ “green energy” schemes).
I don’t expect Brendan to honestly answer these questions. I don’t expect any Democrat to honestly answer these questions.
Those EVIL Republicans….
Oh…
Wait….
That was Senator Obama in 2006. What a difference a few years make.
Shhh. . . sonic, it’s not fair to remind us of what Obama said before he became president. You know about that “net spending cut” and all. It was, well, “just words.“
Yes, Reagan did raise the debt ceiling 18 times. But, in those eight years, the total dollar amount of those increases were about 2.5 trillion in eight years. This latest proposed raise, which will happen automatically if I’m reading things right, will have the Obama administration AND the Congress surpass that amount in just three! If this gravy train continues to go on the same damned track we’re on, in a ceteris paribus fashion, assuming the President wins the 2012 contest, we are looking at a debt increase of close to 9 TRILLION DOLLARS! That, my friends, would be a doubling of the total debt incurred before Barrack Obama took office in 2008.
And no, I’m not placing all the blame on this President. Both side are culpable for the exponential increase, and the failure to put special interests aside, chuck the lobbyist establishment, and get things done, all because they want to position themselves for the next elections.
History will not look kindly to this bunch of politicians… And i use that word with all the bile I can muster!!!!
Oops… This will be the 6th DCR.
If this gravy train continues to go on the same damned track we’re on, in a ceteris paribus fashion, assuming the President wins the 2012 contest, we are looking at a debt increase of close to 9 TRILLION DOLLARS! That, my friends, would be a doubling of the total debt incurred before Barrack Obama took office in 2008.
Well, of course, Sonic.
After all, you can’t expect Nancy Pelosi to spend any of the tens of millions she made insider trading to buy her own private jet or to pay for her own chocolate-dipped strawberries, grilled chicken salads, and top shelf liquor. You hate women and want them to die on the floor if you do that.
And you certainly can’t expect Michelle Obama to wait and travel on Air Force One or to pay for her own daughters’ trips. You’re a racist if you do that.
This is how you hammer Obama supporters like Brendan, Evan Hurst, Rob Tisinai, and all the rest — you pin them with examples of their Obama idols’ exorbitant and ridiculous spending and you force them to live up to their insistence that anyone who criticizes Nancy Pelosi is a misogynist and anyone who criticizes Michelle or Barack Obama is a racist.
It’s hilarious. They will literally contort themselves into justifying calling Malia and Sasha Obama “senior staff” so that multi-millionaire Michelle Obama didn’t have to pay a dime for their costs, or that Pelosi can’t possibly be expected to pay for her own food — while they have screaming aneurysms over “corporate executives” and expense accounts.
So, Brendan, are you going to come back and defend your talking point? Or are you just going to go snivel off somewhere?
I’m going to ignore the sock-puppet and go back to Dan’s quote. “The White House…” Anyone else notice how lately the White House is always the culprit, not President Obama. I’m betting the President going to claim Bo did it when his back was turned…